((born 23 June 1937)
is a former President of Finland (1994–2000), 2008 Nobel Peace Prize
winner and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his
international peace work.
Ahtisaari was a UN Special Envoy at the Kosovo status process
negotiations, aimed at resolving a long-running dispute in Kosovo,
which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. In October 2008 he
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his important efforts, on
several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve
international conflicts"
uth and early career
Martti Ahtisaari
was born in Viipuri, Finland (now Vyborg, Russia).
His father, Oiva Ahtisaari (whose grandfather Julius Marenius Adolfsen
had emigrated with his parents to Finland in 1872 from Tistedalen in
southern Norway) took Finnish citizenship in 1929 and changed his
surname from Adolfsen in 1937. The Continuation War took Martti's
father to the front as a non-commissioned officer army mechanic, while
his mother, Tyyne, moved to Kuopio with her son to escape immediate
danger from the war.[3] Kuopio was where Ahtisaari spent most of his
childhood and first attended school "Kuopion Lyseo".
In 1952, Martti Ahtisaari moved to Oulu with his family to seek
employment. There he continued his education in a well-known high
school "Oulun Lyseo" (among its former students are two other
presidents of Finland: Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg and Kyösti Kallio) and
graduated in 1952. He also joined the local YMCA. After completing his
military service (Ahtisaari holds the rank of captain in the Finnish
Army Reserve), he began to study through a distance-learning course at
Oulu teachers' college. There he was able to live at home while
attending the two-year course which enabled him to qualify as a
primary-school teacher in 1959. Besides his native ********, Finnish,
Ahtisaari speaks Swedish, French, English, and German.
In 1960, he moved to Karachi, Pakistan, to lead the YMCA's physical
education training establishment, where he became accustomed to a more
international environment. As well as managing the students' home,
Ahtisaari's job involved training teachers, which suited him well. He
returned to Finland in 1963 and attended Helsinki University of
Technology. He became active in non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
responsible for aid to developing countries, and joined the
international students' organization AIESEC. In 1965, he joined the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in its Bureau for International
Development Aid, eventually becoming the assistant head of the
department. In 1968, he married Eeva Irmeli Hyvärinen (1936– ). The
couple have one son, Marko Ahtisaari, a noted
musician and producer
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