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Kimmo Tiilikainen
Kimmo Tiilikainen
	Kimmo Tiilikainen in 2007.
Minister of Housing, Energy and the Environment
	In office; 29 May 2015 – 6 June 2019
Prime Minister	Juha Sipilä
Preceded by	Petteri Orpo (agriculture) ; Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (environment)
Succeeded by	Jari Leppä(agriculture)
Minister of Environment
	In office; 28 September 2007 – 10 April 2008
Prime Minister	Matti Vanhanen
Preceded by	Paula Lehtomäki
Succeeded by	Paula Lehtomäki
Personal details
Born	17 August 1966 (age 58); Ruokolahti, Finland
Political party	Centre Party

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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 2015-2019.^[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

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Vice President of the Bureau of the Assembly (2018-2019)^[5]

References

^ http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en
^ "Sipilä's Government appointed". Finnish Government. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
^ http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en
^ "Ruokolahden leijona". Helsingin Sanomat.
^ 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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[1] ttps://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] ttps://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).

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