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 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	(1966-08-17) 17 August 1966 (age 58) Ruokolahti, Finland
Political party	Centre 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

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