Name Ilkka Laitinen | Rank Brigade General Years of service since 1982 | |
Born 22 August 1962Nurmes ( 1962-08-22 ) Other work Executive Director of Frontex | ||
Ilkka Laitinen (born 22 August 1962 in Nurmes, Finland) is a major general and the Deputy Chief of the Finnish Border Guard. He was the Executive Director of Frontex, the European Union’s border protection agency.
He served in the Finnish Border Guard in 1982 and since 1985. He rose to the rank of colonel in 2004 and has held a wide variety of national and EU jobs. He was appointed as the first head of Frontex on 25 May 2005.
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