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Prime Minister  Juha Sipila
Name  Kimmo Tiilikainen
Prime Minister  Matti Vanhanen
Role  Politician

Preceded by  Paula Lehtomaki
Party  Centre Party
Political party  Centre Party
Succeeded by  Paula Lehtomaki
Kimmo Tiilikainen httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Preceded by  Petteri Orpo (agriculture) Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (environment)
Born  17 August 1966 (age 49) Ruokolahti, Finland (1966-08-17)
Education  University of Eastern Finland (1991)

Kimmo tiilikainen minister of environment finland


Kimmo Kalevi Tiilikainen (born 17 August 1966, Ruokolahti) is a Finnish politician from the Centre Party. He is an organic farmer and forester. Tiilikainen has been the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment since 29 May 2015. 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.

UNEA2 in the words of Kimmo Tiilikainen, Finland


Early career

Tiilikainen graduated in 1991 from the University of Joensuu as a Master of Science in Agriculture and Forestry.

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".

Tiilikainen was elected to the Finnish Parliament on his third attempt in 2003.

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Kimmo Tiilikainen Wikipedia