Ombudsman Petri Jääskeläinen

The Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland has been Dr. Petri Jääskeläinen since 1 January 2010.

His fourth term began on 1 January 2022 when he was re-elected to continue in office for the next four-year term.

Petri Jääskeläinen acted as Deputy Ombudsman until 31 December 2009. He had assumed these duties on 1 April 2002. His second term began on 1 April 2006.

Jääskeläinen came to the Office of the Ombudsman from the Office of the Prosecutor General, where he worked as a state prosecutor and as head of the development unit. Before that he had been a researcher at the University of Helsinki and at the Office of the Chancellor of Justice as a referendary.

Ombudsman Jääskeläinen has been Secretary to the Committee on the Prosecution Service and a member of the Executive Committee of the Finnish Lawyers' Association.

His doctoral thesis examines the prosecutor as judge. He has also written presentations and articles on criminal and procedural law.

Curriculum vitae

Education

• Matriculation, Tapiolan lukio/Tapiola Senior Secondary 1978
• LL.B., University of Helsinki 1983
• LL.M. with court training 1986
• LL.D, University of Helsinki 1997

Career

• Parliamentary Ombudsman 2010 –
• Deputy Parliamentary Ombudsman 2002–2009
• Office of the Prosecutor General
  • State Prosecutor 1997–
  • Head of Development Unit 1997–2002
• University of Helsinki
  • Assistant, Researcher 1993–1997 (several stints)
• Office of the Chancellor of Justice
  • Legal Officer 1987–1997
  • Referendary Councellor 1986
• Vantaa Court District notary, chancellery notary, district justice 1985
• Rural police chief, deputy rural police chief, city prosecutor 1982–1984 and 1986 (several stints)

Other offices

• Secretary to the Committee on the Prosecution Service 1994–1995
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Finnish Lawyers’ Association 2000–2005

Publications

• Doctoral thesis “Syyttäjä tuomarina” (“The Prosecutor as Judge”) 1997
• Presentations and articles on criminal and procedural law