Kimmo Tiilikainen

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.

Kimmo Tiilikainen
Kimmo Tiilikainen in 2007.
Minister of Housing, Energy and the Environment
In office
29 May 2015 – 6 June 2019
Prime MinisterJuha Sipilä
Preceded byPetteri Orpo (agriculture)
Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (environment)
Succeeded byJari Leppä(agriculture)
Minister of Environment
In office
28 September 2007 – 10 April 2008
Prime MinisterMatti Vanhanen
Preceded byPaula Lehtomäki
Succeeded byPaula Lehtomäki
Personal details
Born (1966-08-17) 17 August 1966
Ruokolahti, Finland
Political partyCentre Party

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

References
  1. http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en
  2. "Sipilä's Government appointed". Finnish Government. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  3. http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en
  4. "Ruokolahden leijona". Helsingin Sanomat.
  5. Presidency and Bureau United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Political offices
Preceded by
Paula Lehtomäki		 Minister of the Environment of Finland
September 2007–April 2008		 Succeeded by
Paula Lehtomäki
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