Kimmo Kiljunen (born 13 June 1951 in Ruokolahti) was a member of the Finnish parliament from 1995 to 2011.[1] He was a member of the Parliament's Grand Committee and member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs. He is a member of Social Democratic Party and has been the chairman of the city council of Vantaa.
Kiljunen has a PhD degree from the University of Sussex. He has published several books on Finnish politics, international relations and development. Recently, he has focused on European integration and bringing a parliamentary dimension to the work of intergovernmental organizations. He was a member of the European Convention that drafted a constitution for the EU. He was a candidate in the 2009 elections of the European Parliament and received 26,837 votes, which was not enough to be elected.
Kiljunen has been an active member and vice-chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly and led several election observation missions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Prior to his career in politics, he worked for United Nations Development Programme in New York and UNICEF in Nairobi. He was married to ambassador Marja-Liisa Kiljunen. He and Marja-Liisa Kiljunen made together an appeal for the divorce on 21 October 2008. They had been married since 1972 and have two daughters, Rauha and Riikka and two sons, Veikko and Jaakko. [2]
Kimmo Kiljunen consulted a sexologist of the university of Tamperem, Anna Kontula, in campaigning and made a trip to Nepal. Anna Kontula became an elected member of the parliament of Finland on 17 April 2011. [3] He currently also sits as member of the AWEPA Governing Council.[4]