Sirpa Pietikäinen

Member

  • Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
  • Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
  • Delegation for relations with Palestine
  • Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean

Substitute

  • Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
  • Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament

Education (qualifications and diplomas)

  • 1986 : Master’s degree in business studies, Helsinki School of Economics
  • 1978 : Secondary school graduate, Hämeenlinna Coeducational High School

Professional career

  • 1982 : Negotiation theory instructor, Helsinki School of Economics and University of Eastern Finland
  • 1982 : A-lehdet (media company), agents’ department, summer job
  • 1980-1981 : Kultakeskus Oy (jewellery manufacturer), summer job, marketing analysis and planning, customer surveys (goldsmiths and watchmakers), later specific project assignments
  • 1979-1980 : Marketing research studies for Ajanmies Oy (1979), Teinitalo Oy (1980), and Suomen Hippos ry (1981)
  • 1979 : Postitie Ky, summer job, international correspondence and assistance duties

Political career

Offices held in a political party or national trade union

  • 1989-1995 : Coalition Party Environmental Policy Committee, Coalition Party Chair, Vice-Chair
  • 1989-1995 : Coalition Party Programme Committee, Chair
  • 1989-1991 : Coalition Party Education Policy Advisory Committee, member
  • 1989-1991 : Coalition Party Cultural Policy Committee, member
  • 1986-1987 : Conservatives for Peace, Chair
  • 1986-1991 : Coalition Party Foreign Policy Task Force, member
  • 1986-1991 : Coalition Party Advisory Committee on Regional and Local Government, member
  • 1978-1980 : Etelä-Häme Coalition Party District Delegation, member
  • 1977-1985 : Etelä-Häme Coalition Party Cultural Policy Committee, member
  • 1976-1977 : Etelä-Häme Young Coalition Party, Secretary for School Affairs, member of the District Board and the Executive Committee (1977-79)
  • 1979-1982 : Conservatives in business studies, member of the Executive Board (management consultancy (Creative Only Oy))

Offices held in local government bodies

  • 1981-1992 : Hämeenlinna Town Council, councillor, Vice-Chair of the council group (1985-1992)

Offices held in a regional assembly

  • 1988 : Member of the Presidential Electoral College

Offices held in regional government bodies

  • 1982-1989 : Häme Provincial Federation, member of the Executive
  • 1984-1986 : Häme Province Regional Policy Advisory Committee, member
  • 1984-1989 : Häme Province Regional Policy Advisory Committee, member

Offices held in a national parliament

  • 1983-2003 : Member of the Finnish Parliament (serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Environment Committee, the Committee on the Future, the Second Committee on Laws, the Committee on Legal and Economic Affairs, and the Grand Committee)

Offices held in a national government

  • 1991-1995 : Minister of the Environment (member of the EU Ministerial Committee)

Offices held in the EU institutions

  • 2009-2012 : Member of the European Parliament, member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, substitute member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, and the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect, member of the Delegation for relations with the People’s Republic of China, substitute member of the European Parliament delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Offices held in other European organisations

  • 2010 : Alzheimer Europe, member of the Board
  • 2009 : GlobeEU, President
  • 1998-2002 : European Centre for Conflict Prevention, member of the Board
  • 1989-1993 : EDU (European Democratic Union), Ecosocial Market Economy Commission, Chair
  • 1987-1991 : Member of the Nordic Council

Offices held in other international organisations

  • 2006-2012 : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), member of the Board of Advisers
  • 2000-2004 : World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA), Chair