# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ilkka-laitinen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:54.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ilkka-laitinen"
name: "Ilkka Laitinen"
slug: "ilkka-laitinen"
description: "Ilkka Pertti Juhani Laitinen was a Finnish border guard officer, who served as the lieutenant general and the Chief of the Finnish Border Guard from 2018 to 2019. He was the first executive director of Frontex, the European Union’s border protection agency, from 2005 until 2014."
tagline: "Finnish lieutenant general (1962-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ilkka_Laitinen_(2008).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1962-08-22"
deathDate: "2019-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.736573333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ايلكا لايتينين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Laitinen"
    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Laitinen"
    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Laitinen"
    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Laitinen"
    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Laitinen"
    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Laitinen"
    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Laitinen"
    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkka_Laitinen"
    title: "Ilkka Laitinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3148690"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump