Kimmo Tiilikainen

Kimmo Tiilikainen

Kimmo Tiilikainen in 2007.
Minister of Agriculture and the Environment
Assumed office
29 May 2015
Prime Minister Juha Sipilä
Preceded by Petteri Orpo (agriculture)
Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (environment)
Minister for Environment
In office
28 September 2007  10 April 2008
Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
Preceded by Paula Lehtomäki
Succeeded by Paula Lehtomäki
Personal details
Born (1966-08-17) 17 August 1966
Ruokolahti, Finland
Political 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 has been the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment since 29 May 2015.[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.

References

Political offices
Preceded by
Paula Lehtomäki
Minister of the Environment of Finland
September 2007–April 2008
Succeeded by
Paula Lehtomäki


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