Kauko Jämsén

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kauko Jämsén (born 22 July 1943 in Helsinki) is a Finnish diplomat and former journalist and basketball coach. He was Finland’s ambassador to Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009. Before that, he served as Finland’s General-Consul in St. Petersburg from 2001 to 2005. He has a Master’s degree in Political Science and started at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1975. As a diplomat, he has also worked as a basketball coach: he was the head coach of the Finnish national team from 1974 to 1976, and he coached Helsinki YMCA and Porvoo Tarmo. Earlier, from 1970 to 1973 he was a labor market and political editor at Ilta-Sanomat, and from 1973 to 1975 a financial editor at Helsingin Sanomat. He is married to Hannele Eerola-Jämsén and they have five children.