Minister of Trade and Industry 1999-25.2.2000
Member of parliament Social-Democratic Party 1970-79 and from 1991- ; Vice-Chairman of the SDP parliamentary group 1991-96, Chairman 1 996-99.
Chairman of the Grand (European Affairs) Committee 1995-99 ; Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee 1970-79, 91-99.
Erkki Tuomioja worked as a journalist before being elected to parliament. He was Deputy Mayor in Helsinki 1979-91. He has a Ph.D. in political science, B.Sc. in economics and holds a lectureship in political history in the University of Helsinki.
Erkki Tuomioja is author of 18 books, including Europe and the Nordic Fringe written in English and published in 1991. An english resumé of his Ph.D. dissertation on Pekka Kuusi - can be read here
Erkki Tuomioja was one of the keynote speakers at a seminar arranged jointly by The Finnish Institute in London, the New Statesman and the London School of Economics on May 29th 1998. His remarks on the subject of the seminar: Blairism, a Beacon to Europe?
On May 4th 1999 Erkki Tuomioja lectured at the LSE in a Conference on Finlandīs EU Presidency arranged together with the Finnish Embassy in London on Finland and the Euro.
Erkki Tuomioja spoke at a seminar arranged by the European Environmental Bureau on Brussels 25.11. His speech on "On environment and ecology" can be read here.
Mr. Tuomioja spoke at the Geneva Conference on Chemical Weapons Disarmament 27.3.2000. His speech can be read here
Erkki Tuomioja gave an address at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Berlin on 10 May 2000. It can be read here
The First Interparliamentary Meeting on the Tobin Tax was held at the European Parliament, Brussels 28 June 2000, Mr. Tuomioja's speech can be read here
The 25th Anniversary of the CSCE/OSCE was celebrated in Tampere on August 1st 2000. Minister Tuomioja's speech on the occasion can be read here.
Speech in Tampere, 23 January 2001, at the Paasikivi society:"The European Union after Nice"
The Economist Conference was held in Athens on 3rd April. Ministers speech on "Leadership strategy following the Nice summit: is there a vision for a united Europe?" can be read here
Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja on the terror attacks in the Finnish Parliament on 13 September
