Päivi Kairamo
{{Short description|Finnish diplomat and civil servant}}
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Päivi Kairamo (former Kairamo-Hella, born 10 April 1964){{cite web |url= http://www.finlandmission.ch/public/download.aspx?ID=151008&GUID=%7B83F70BBB-CD9D-43A4-B8AB-93DBD1FA8000%7D |title=Päivi Kairamon Curriculum Vitae|last=|first= |date=|website=|publisher=Suomen pysyvä edustusto, Geneve|access-date=|quote= }} is a Finnish diplomat and civil servant. She has been working as Head of the United Nations Permanent Representation to Geneva from 1 July 2012.{{cite web |url= http://www.formin.finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=238615&contentlan=1&culture=fi-FI|title=Päivi Kairamo-Hella pysyvän edustuston päälliköksi Geneveen|last=|first= |date=|website=|publisher=Suomen ulkoasiainministeriö|access-date=|quote= }}
Kairamo was appointed as Finland's ambassador to Turkey on 1 September 2016{{cite web |url= http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/a1472355008201 |title= Vallankaappausyritys, puhdistukset, sota Syyriassa – Suomen uusi Turkin-lähettiläs aloittaa keskellä suurta myllerrystä|last=Nalbantoglu|first=Minna |date=|website=|publisher=Helsingin Sanomat|access-date=|quote= }}
Kairamo is a Bachelor of Law degree by education.
She graduated from the University of Helsinki in 1990 and started her career at the Ministry of Labor in 1991. Kairamo worked as a government secretary in the Ministry until 1995. At the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Kairamo worked as a commercial council in 1995-1997 and 1998 and in Parliament as Committee on Social Affairs and Health 1997.
Between 1998 and 2000, Kairamo served as a specialist in Finland's permanent EU delegation. She worked as a European Commission official for 2000–2005. Kairamo was the Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the Republic of Finland 2005-2009 and at the Office of the President 2009–2012.
Kairamo is a Social Democrat.{{cite book |author= |title=Presidentin kansliapääliköksi Demari-nainen= |url=http://www.hs.fi/digilehti/kotimaa/artikkeli/Presidentin+kansliap%C3%A4%C3%A4llik%C3%B6ksi+Demari-nainen/1135242600428 |location=Helsinki |publisher= Sanoma-WSOY|pages=A4 |date= |isbn=|language=fi}}
Kairamo's father was Aimo Kairamo's former editor-in-chief of the Finnish Social Democrat newspaper.{{cite web |url=https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000000138656.html|title= Halosen kansliapäälliköksi Aimo Kairamon tytär |last=|first= |date=|website=|publisher=Iltasanomat|access-date=|quote= }}