Olavi J. Mattila

{{Short description|Finnish politician (1918–2013)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Ministeri (Minister)

| name = Olavi J. Mattila

| honorific-suffix =

| image = File:Olavi-J-Mattila-1975 (cropped).jpg

| order =

| office = Minister of Foreign Affairs{{cite web |url=http://formin.finland.fi/public/?contentid=41366&contentlan=1&culture=fi-FI |title=Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland - Ministers of Foreign Affairs |publisher=Valtioneuvosto.fi |accessdate=30 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716073918/http://formin.finland.fi/public/?contentid=41366&contentlan=1&culture=fi-FI |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}

| primeminister = Keijo Liinamaa

| term_start = 13 June 1975

| term_end = 30 November 1975

| predecessor = Ahti Karjalainen

| successor = Kalevi Sorsa

| primeminister2 = Teuvo Aura

| term_start2 = 29 October 1971

| term_end2 = 23 February 1972

| predecessor2 = Väinö Leskinen

| successor2 = Kalevi Sorsa

| office3 = Minister of Trade and Industry

| term_start3 = 14 May 1970

| term_end3 = 15 July 1970

| primeminister3 = Teuvo Aura

| predecessor3 = Grels Teir

| successor3 = Arne Berner

| term_start4 = 18 December 1963

| term_end4 = 12 September 1964

| primeminister4 = Reino R. Lehto

| successor4 = Toivo Wiherheimo

| predecessor4 = Toivo Wiherheimo

| office5 = Deputy Prime Minister of Finland

| term_start5 = 13 June 1975

| term_end5 = 30 November 1975

| primeminister5 = Keijo Liinamaa

| predecessor5 = Ahti Karjalainen

| successor5 = Kalevi Sorsa

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|10|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Hyvinkää, Finland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2013|8|4|1918|10|24}}

| death_place = Hyvinkää, Finland

| birthname = Olavi Johannes Mattila

| nationality = Finnish

| party = Independent

| otherparty =

| spouse = Annikki (deceased, June 2004)Awake!, January 2012, pages 24–26

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| children = Olli Mattila

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| caption = Mattila in 1975

}}

Olavi Johannes Mattila (24 October 1918 – 4 August 2013) was a Finnish politician who served twice as the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, and also held several other ministerial positions in a number of cabinets in the 1960s and 1970s. He was also the CEO of state owned Valmet. He was considered as a close associate of Urho Kekkonen.

He graduated as master of science in engineering in 1946 and as MBA in 1950. Mattila worked in the diplomatic missions in Beijing, China and Buenos Aires, Argentina from 1952 to 1960. Later he became a director in the ministry of trade and industry. For two short terms in 1960s and 1970s he hold the position of Minister of Trade and Industry as a non-partisan.{{cite web|url=http://valtioneuvosto.fi/tietoa/historiaa/hallitukset-ja-ministerit/raportti/-/r/v9l/6|title=Finnish Government - Ministers of Trade and Industry|publisher=Valtioneuvosto.fi|accessdate=30 March 2018}} He worked in the state-owned Valmet, first as the CEO from 1965 to 1973 and as the chairman of the board from 1973 to 1982. He was also the chairman of the board of Enso-Gutzeit, another state-owned company.

His son, Olli Mattila, who also worked as a diplomat in the foreign ministry, was convicted in the early 2000s for espionage.{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/arkisto.shtml/arkistot/kotimaa/2000/06/23213| title=News item | publisher=MTV3| accessdate=2011-03-27}}

In 2002, he was visited by members of Jehovah's Witnesses studying the Bible with them, and he subsequently joined the religion.Awake!, January 2012, pages 24–26 He died 4 August 2013 at the age of 94.http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1376358543568?jako=549f6372ca999477cf32252c17e9fc06 News Article in Finnish by Helsingin Sanomat