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Kimmo Tiilikainen  | |
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|   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 | 17 August 1966 | 
| 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 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.
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.
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.