Sirpa Pietikäinen

Who is Sirpa Pietikäinen?

Sirpa Pietikäinen is a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party. She is a Member of the European Parliament since 2008, and re-elected in 2009.

She was in the Hämeenlinna town council. She is a former Member of Finnish Parliament, former Minister for the Environment. Pietikäinen was the Chair of Finnish United Nations Association between 1996 and 2007. Pietikäinen was the World Federation of United Nations Associations chairwoman between 2000 and 2004. She has also worked for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and One World International.

Pietikäinen has an MBA degree from Helsinki School of Economics. She has received The Knight Commander's Order of the White Rose of Finland. She speaks Finnish, English, French, Swedish and German.

Her articles have been published in:

Vanhuus kaupungissa, WSOY 1996

Naisen seitsemän elämää, WSOY 1998

Maapallohaaste, Otava 1999

Kaikesta jää jälki, Avain 2008

Making the Green Energy Switch at a Time of Crisis

In 2003, Pietikäinen was convicted of aggravated drunk driving after moving her car in a parking lot at midnight.