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Kimmo Tiilikainen
Finnish politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 to 2019.[2] He is also a former Minister of the Environment of Finland from 2007 to 2008.
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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.
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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.
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Other activities
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Vice President of the Bureau of the Assembly (2018-2019)[5]
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