In office 19 November 2021 (2021-11-19) – 20 June 2023 (2023-06-20)
Prime Minister
Sanna Marin
Preceded by
Maria Ohisalo
Succeeded by
Mari Rantanen
Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
In office 6 June 2019 – 19 November 2021
Prime Minister
Antti Rinne Sanna Marin
Preceded by
Kimmo Tiilikainen
Succeeded by
Emma Kari
Member of the Finnish Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 April 2015 (2015-04-22)
Constituency
Savo-Karelia
Personal details
Born
Krista Johanna Mikkonen
(1972-11-15) 15 November 1972 (age 51) Hamina, Kymenlaakso, Finland
Political party
Green League
Alma mater
University of Joensuu
Krista Johanna Mikkonen (born 15 November 1972 in Hamina, Finland) is a Finnish politician of the Green League, a member of parliament, and Finland's Minister of the Interior. She lives in Joensuu but spent her childhood in Koria. She was first elected to the Finnish Parliament in the 2015 parliamentary election for the Savo-Karelia constituency.[1][2] Between 2016 and 2019, Mikkonen was the chairman of the Green League parliamentary group.[3] Mikkonen graduated with a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Joensuu (present day University of Eastern Finland) in North Karelia in 2003.[4]
Mikkonen was elected as a Member of the Finnish Parliament in the 2015 parliamentary elections with 4624 votes and re-elected in 2019 with 6204 votes.[5][6] Her constituency is Savonia-Karelia. She had previously been nominated in three parliamentary elections in 1999, 2007 and 2011 in the constituency of North Karelia.[7][8]
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