Pekka huhtaniemi biography channel

Finland's Ambassador to the UK, His Excellency Pekka Huhtaniemi, met Finnish students enjoying their studies in Aberdeen, together with researchers working on projects focused on the circumpolar North.

Ambassador Huhtaniemi was welcomed to the University by Vice-Principal Professor Albert Rodger.

Pekka huhtaniemi biography channel

The University has around 145 Finnish students.

Leading a seminar on ‘The North’ was Professor Tim Ingold, Professor of Social Anthropology and Leader for the University’s Interdisciplinary Research Theme on ‘The North’.

Professor Ingold has carried out ethnographic fieldwork with Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on reindeer herding and husbandry, rural economy and the consequences of post-war resettlement and migration in northern Finland.

A fluent speaker of Finnish, Ingold was Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki in autumn 1986, and delivered the Weste