Changes in the President’s aides-de-camp and members of the Presidential Cabinet

Office of the President of the Republic of Finland
Press release 46/2024
23 August 2024

On 1 September 2024, there will be changes in the line-up of the aides-de-camp of the President of the Republic of Finland. Lieutenant Colonel Ville Hukkanen, currently serving as the Second Aide-de-Camp, has been appointed as the First Aide-de-Camp.

The current First Aide-de-Camp of the President of the Republic, Lieutenant Colonel Tino Savolainen, will transfer to the Reserve Officer School of the Army Academy as the head of the reserve officer course. He has served as an Aide-de-Camp to the President of the Republic of Finland since 2018.

The current Third Aide-de-Camp, Lieutenant Commander Anna Eronen, has been appointed as the Second Aide-de-Camp and Major Tuomas Karjalainen from the Jaeger Brigade has been appointed as the Third Aide-de-Camp.

There will also be changes in the composition of the Cabinet of the President. President of the Republic of Finland Alexander Stubb has appointed Anna-Mari Wong Hämäläinen, Master of Sports Sciences, Bachelor of Political Sciences, as his foreign and security policy advisor.

Wong Hämäläinen will take up her position as presidential advisor and member of the Presidential Cabinet on 2 September 2024. She will transfer to the position from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, where she is working as the team leader, NATO issues, at the Unit for Security Policy and Crisis Management of the Political Department.

Anna-Mari Wong Hämäläinen will substitute for Aliisa Tornberg, who has served as the President of the Republic of Finland’s foreign and security policy advisor since March 2024. She will go on a parental leave as of 13 September 2024.