Kimmo Tiilikainen

Kimmo Tiilikainen
Kimmo Tiilikainen in 2007.
Minister of Agriculture and the Environment
Incumbent
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.

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