Teija Helena Tiilikainen (born 22 April 1964) is a Finnish political scientist. She has been the Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and a vice-chairperson of the executive board of the University of Helsinki. In August 2019 she was elected Director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. Her research focuses on European integration and European security policy.
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| Born | 22 April 1964 Lohja, Finland |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Alma mater | Åbo Akademi University |
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Early life and career
editTiilikainen studied Political Science at Åbo Akademi University. She received a Master in Political Science there in 1989, a graduate diploma in Political Science in 1991, and a doctorate in Political Science in 1997.[1] Her dissertation studied the history of political ideas across Europe and Finland, and the political identity of Finland in Western Europe.[1]
Career
editTiilikainen then joined the faculty at the University of Turku, before returning to the Åbo Akademi University, and then in 1998 moving to the University of Helsinki.[1]
In 2002–2003, Tiilikainen was chosen as a member of the Convention on the Future of Europe.[2] In 2015, she was selected for the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security, a Common Project by the ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger.[2]
From 2007 to 2008, Tiilikainen was the Secretary of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.[3] She served in the service of Ilkka Kanerva, and subsequently Alexander Stubb for a short time. In 2009 she returned to the University of Helsinki.[4]
Tiilikainen participated in the Bilderberg meetings of 2002, 2005, and 2007.[5] She has also been the editor-in-chief of the Finnish foreign policy journal Ulkopolitiikka.[6]
From 2003 to 2009, Tiilikainen was Director of the Network of European Studies at the University of Helsinki.[3] In 2010, she left the Network of European Studies when she was appointed to be the Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, which is an independent research institute in Töölö that studies questions of international relations and the European Union.[2] In 2018, she joined the Peace and Security Cluster at the School of Transnational Governance as a part-time professor.[2]
In August 2019, Tiilikainen was elected to a five year term as the director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, a research centre in Helsinki that studies possible responses to hybrid warfare threats to The European Union and NATO.[7]
Tiilikainen's work has been covered in global news media outlets including Helsingin Sanomat,[8] The Irish Times,[9] The Economist,[10] and The Xinhua News Agency.[11]
Other activities
edit- European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Member[12]
- European Leadership Network (ELN), Senior Member[13]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Teija Tiilikainen". University of Helsinki. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Teija Tiilikainen". School of Transnational Governance. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Teija Tiilikainen appointed Director of Hybrid CoE". European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Stubbin valtiosihteeri Teija Tiilikainen jättää tehtävänsä" (in Finnish). 8 April 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Bilderberg: Suomalaiset osanottajat" (in Finnish). Mot. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Teija Tiilikainen". International Centre for Defense and Security. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Teija Tiilikainen will become the director of the hybrid center" (in Finnish). Uutiset. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ Kauhanen, Anna-Liina. "Ulkopolitiikan asiantuntija Teija Tiilikainen: Koronakriisi ei rohkaissut suurvaltoja minkäänlaiseen vastuunkantoon, vaan loanheitto pahenee". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ Smyth, Patrick (8 April 2017). "State's brand of neutrality has become obsolete". The Irish Times. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Just Visiting: Scandinavia and Russia". The Economist. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Xinhua Headlines: Trump-Putin meeting: warm words, few results". Xinghua News. 17 July 2018. Archived from the original on 17 July 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ Members European Council on Foreign Relations.
- ^ "Senior Network". www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved 21 September 2020.