Kimmo Tiilikainen Explained

Kimmo Tiilikainen
Office:Minister of Housing, Energy and the Environment
Primeminister:Juha Sipilä
Term Start:29 May 2015
Term End:6 June 2019
Predecessor:Petteri Orpo (agriculture)
Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (environment)
Successor:Jari Leppä(agriculture)
Office2:Minister of Environment
Primeminister2:Matti Vanhanen
Term Start2:28 September 2007
Term End2:10 April 2008
Predecessor2:Paula Lehtomäki
Successor2:Paula Lehtomäki
Birth Date:17 August 1966
Birth Place:Ruokolahti, Finland
Party:Centre Party

Kimmo Kalevi Tiilikainen (born 17 August 1966, Ruokolahti) is a Finnish politician from the Centre Party.[1] He is an organic farmer and forester. Tiilikainen served as the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment from 2015 to 2019.[2] He is also a former Minister of the Environment of Finland from 2007 to 2008.

Currently Tiilikainen is the Chairman of the Centre Party Parliamentary Group and a member of the Finnish Parliament. He is also a city council member in his home municipality in Ruokolahti.

Early career

Tiilikainen graduated in 1991 from the University of Joensuu as a Master of Science in Agriculture and Forestry.[3]

In the beginning of 1990's Tiilikainen was elected as the chairman of Finnish Organic Food Association. He made his first attempt to the Finnish Parliament as a nonaligned candidate on the list of the Green League. He switched to the Centre Party in 1997 explaining that "the Greens were not ecological enough".[4]

Tiilikainen was elected to the Finnish Parliament on his third attempt in 2003.

Other activities

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eduskunta - kansanedustajat . www.eduskunta.fi . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081030043624/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en . 2008-10-30.
  2. Web site: Sipilä's Government appointed . 29 May 2015 . Finnish Government . 29 May 2015 . 29 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150529174452/http://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/article/-/asset_publisher/sipilan-hallitus-nimitettiin?_101_INSTANCE_3qmUeJgIxZEK_groupId=10616 . dead .
  3. Web site: Eduskunta - kansanedustajat . www.eduskunta.fi . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081030043624/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en . 2008-10-30.
  4. Web site: Ruokolahden leijona . Helsingin Sanomat.
  5. http://web.unep.org/environmentassembly/node/40737 Presidency and Bureau