Petri Hakkarainen Petri Hakkarainen is the Director of Foreign and Security Policy at the Office of the President of Finland, a position he has held since 2018. Prior to that, he worked for the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs since 2006 with staions in Washington, Berlin and Helsinki, as well as at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam. He received his doctorate in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 2008. In 2009 his dissertation was awarded the Willy Brandt Prize for the 'advancement of outstanding young scholars' by the Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation. Read More Read Less