Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Name: Topi Oras Kalevi Tynkkynen
Date and place of birth: Sept. 25, 1977, Jyväskylä; Finland

Education

• Primary and junior high school at Jyväskylä Rudolf Steiner school 1984–93
• High school at Tampere Rudolf Steiner school 1993–97
• Journalism studies at Tampere University 1999–
  - additional subjects: environmental politics and gender studies
  - Bachelor of Social Sciences 2007
  - Master of Social Sciences 2009

Parliamentary career

• Member of the Parliament of Finland since: 20.07.2004 – 
• Constituency:  Pirkanmaa constituency 20.07.2004 –

Present memberships in committees:

• Commerce Committee (member) Oct. 21, 2009 -
• Environment Committee (deputy member) Oct. 21, 2009 –

Earlier memberships in committees: 

• Commerce Committee (member) Sept. 28, 2004 – March 20, 2007, (deputy member) Sept. 9, 2004 – Sept. 24, 2004
• Employment and Equality Committee (deputy member) Sept. 28, 2004 – March 20, 2007 (member) Sept. 9, 2004 – Sept. 24, 2004
• Environment Committee (member) Sept. 6, 2006 – Oct. 20, 2009, (vice chair) Sept. 12, 2006 – March 20, 2007, (deputy member) Sept. 9, 2004 – Sept. 5, 2004

Selected work experience

• Civil service as a publications editor at the Service Centre for Development Cooperation 1997–98
• Activist exchange in Lokayan, New Delhi, India 1–4/2000
• Research assistant at the Department of Regional Studies and Environmental Policy, Tampere University 6–11/2001 
• Reporter at the Finnish Broadcasting Company radio news department, 5–8/2003, 6/2004
• Member of parliament 7/2004–

Selected seats and positions

• Founding member and vice chairperson of Friends of the Earth Finland 1996–97, 2004
• NGO representative at the UN climate conference COP3 in Kyoto 1997
• Vice member of the Tampere City Council 1997–2000
• Expert member of the Finnish government delegation at the UN climate conferences COP4, COP5, COP6a and b, COP11 and COP12 in Buenos Aires, Bonn, The Hague, Montreal, Nairobi 1998–2006
• Vice member of the government climate committee 1998–2003, member 2003–04
• Board member of Friends of the Earth Finland 1999–2000
• Member of the representative assembly of the Tampere University Students Union 1999–2000
• Member of the Tampere City Council 2001–
• Member of the Pirkanmaa provincial board 2001–04
• Member of the Tampere commerce board 2004
• Chair of the transport policy group of the Green League 2004–
• Vice chair of the India friendship group of the Finnish Parliament 2005–
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Fortum Oyj 2005–
• Member of the Finnish Delegation to the Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region 2005–2007
• Climate Policy Specialist in the Prime Minister’s Office 2007–

Selected writings and related posts

• Columnist in Z-magazine 2007–
• Columnist in Vihreä Lanka 1994, 2001–
• Co-author of http://www.ilmasto.org/ 1998, editor in chief 2002–
• Climate change and developing countries, briefing paper for Service Centre for Development Cooperation 1999
• Columnist in Taloussanomat (economic daily) 2001
• Co-author of The Whole Climate – Climate equity and its implications for the North 2001
• Framework for fair shares: Equity in burden sharing. In the publication Haukkala (ed.): Every human has an equal right…? Equity problems in climate policy and politics. University of Tampere 2000.

Speeches

About 300 speeches at seminars, panel discussions, university courses, training sessions and the like in about 40 different towns and cities in Finland and abroad, including the following:

• Lectures on environmental policy and politics at Tampere University, Dec. 13, 1999, Sept. 25 & Oct. 9, 2000, Feb. 21 & March 12, 2001, March 28, 2002
• Globalisation and sustainable development seminar by the Helsinki University of Technology, Nov. 29, 2001 
• A co-chair at the sustainable development session, climate equity conference, Nusa Dua, Indonesia, May 21, 2002 
• Climate equity meeting of the Indonesian People’s Forum, Nusa Dua, Indonesia, May 29, 2002
• Towards sustainable development? seminar in OtaEco’02 congress, Espoo, Nov. 7, 2002
• A seminar on transport policy at the Tampere University Deparment of Public Health, Nov. 18, 2004
• Chair of a Helsinki process panel discussion on water, March 15, 2005
• Keynote speech at the Tampere Crossing conference, May 18, 2005
• A lecture on introduction to global environmental agreements at the University of Helsinki, Nov. 9, 2005
• Opening speech at the Ecocat Cleans the Air for the World seminar, Helsinki, May 23,  2006
• Openly LGTB politicians, panel discussion, International Conference on LGBT Human Rights, Montreal, July 28,  2006
• Opening speech on sexual health, Young Decision Makers conference, Helsinki, Sept. 8, 2006
• Panel discussion, Safe and secure energy for Europe, Helsinki, Sept. 21, 2006
• Lecture on Global Environmental Politics course, University of Helsinki, Nov. 8, 2006
• International plenary, International Climate Conference, London, May 13, 2007
• MP panel, International Climate Conference, London, May 13, 2007