Teija Tiilikainen

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Born22 April 1964
NationalityFinnish
Alma materÅbo Akademi University
Member ofEuropean Council on Foreign Relations, European Leadership Network
Finnish security bureaucrat working to push Finland into NATO.

Teija Helena Tiilikainen 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.

She is part of the drive to push Finland into the transatlantic orbit, either with NATO through steadily more sneakily formulated cooperation agreements, or the backdoor, through a common EU military policy.

Early life and career

Tiilikainen 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

Tiilikainen 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][10] and The Xinhua News Agency.[11]

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/200230 May 20022 June 2002US
Virginia
Chantilly
Westfields Marriott
The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
Bilderberg/20055 May 20058 May 2005Germany
Rottach-Egern
The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Bilderberg/200731 May 20073 June 2007Turkey
Istanbul
The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Munich Security Conference/20156 February 20158 February 2015Germany
Munich
Bavaria
"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/201612 February 201614 February 2016Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201812 February 201814 February 2018Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201915 February 201917 February 2019Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/202416 February 202418 February 2024Germany
Munich
Bavaria
Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects
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