Satu Hassi

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Satu Maijastiina Hassi (born 3 June 1951) is a Finnish politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the Green League. She served as the Minister of Environment and Development Co-Operation in Paavo Lipponen's second cabinet between 15 April 1999 and 31 May 2002; she left the cabinet prematurely in response to the decision to build a fifth nuclear power plant in Finland. Hassi served as the leader of her party between 1999 and 2001. She was a member of the national parliament from 1991 to 2004; she left the parliament when she was elected to the European Parliament as the sole Finnish Green representative in the 2004 election.

She is licentiate in technology by training, has worked as an engineer in a power company and taught at Tampere Technical University. She has published three novels, a collection of poems and several essays. She has also been co-author of a series of physics books for high school.

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• Official website (in Finnish)

Preceded by Tuija Brax

Chairperson of the Green League 1997–2001

Succeeded by Osmo Soininvaara