sentences:  From 1981 to 1982 Hämäläinen was head of the department of the Ministry of Finance and from 1982 to 1991 served as Governor of the Bank of Finland.After that, her positions had broadened and Hämäläinen ended up serving as an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Helsinki School of Economics and as Executive Board Member, positions which she kept until 2006 and 1992 respectively.She was the first Finnish woman to serve on the Board of Directors of the European Central Bank, a position which she kept from 1998 to 2003.