Kimmo Tiilikainen

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Kimmo Tiilikainen

| image = Kimmo Tiilikainen.jpg

| caption = Kimmo Tiilikainen in 2007.

| office = Minister of Housing, Energy and the Environment

| primeminister = Juha Sipilä

| term_start = 29 May 2015

| term_end = 6 June 2019

| predecessor = Petteri Orpo (agriculture)
Sanni Grahn-Laasonen (environment)

| successor = Jari Leppä(agriculture)

| office2 = Minister of Environment

| primeminister2 = Matti Vanhanen

| term_start2 = 28 September 2007

| term_end2 = 10 April 2008

| predecessor2 = Paula Lehtomäki

| successor2 = Paula Lehtomäki

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|08|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ruokolahti, Finland

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Centre Party

| spouse =

}}

Kimmo Kalevi Tiilikainen (born 17 August 1966, Ruokolahti) is a Finnish politician from the Centre Party.{{cite web |url=http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en |title=Eduskunta - kansanedustajat |website=www.eduskunta.fi |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030043624/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en |archive-date=2008-10-30}} He is an organic farmer and forester. Tiilikainen served as the Minister of Agriculture and the Environment from 2015 to 2019.{{cite web |url= http://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/article/-/asset_publisher/sipilan-hallitus-nimitettiin?_101_INSTANCE_3qmUeJgIxZEK_groupId=10616 |title= Sipilä's Government appointed |date= 29 May 2015 |publisher= Finnish Government |accessdate= 29 May 2015 |archive-date= 29 May 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150529174452/http://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/article/-/asset_publisher/sipilan-hallitus-nimitettiin?_101_INSTANCE_3qmUeJgIxZEK_groupId=10616 |url-status= dead }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en |title=Eduskunta - kansanedustajat |website=www.eduskunta.fi |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030043624/http://www.eduskunta.fi/triphome/bin/hex5000.sh?hnro=790&kieli=en |archive-date=2008-10-30}}

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".{{cite web |url=http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/artikkeli/Ruokolahden+leijona/1135236765119|title=Ruokolahden leijona |publisher=Helsingin Sanomat}}

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)[http://web.unep.org/environmentassembly/node/40737 Presidency and Bureau] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125000935/http://web.unep.org/environmentassembly/node/40737 |date=2020-01-25 }} United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).