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.
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.