Member of Parliament since 1995
The Grand Committee (EU Affairs Committee), Member since 1995,
Vice-Chairman 1999-
The Foreign Affairs Committee, Member 1996-
Member of European Convention, 2002-2003
The Finnish Delegation of OSCE, Vice-Chairman 1995-
The Finnish Delegation to the Nordic Council, Member 1996-2001
Parliamentarian Network of World Bank, PNOWB, Vice-Chair of the Steering
Committee 2001-
I was Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Helsinki 1986-1995. In 1993-94 I worked as Transition Policy Coordinator for UNDP in New York. I was consultant for UNICEF in their Kenya Country Office in Nairobi during 1989-1991.
See my full CV in English.
I have written several books on international politics and global development problems. Here you can find some examples:
Namibia - The Last Colony (ed. with R.H. Green and M-L. Kiljunen),
Longman, London 1981 (p. 310)
Kampuchea, Decade of the Genocide (ed.), Z-Press, London 1984 (p. 126)
Region-to-Region Cooperation Between Developed and Developing Countries (ed.),
Avebury, Aldershot 1990 (p. 179)
Finland and the New International Division of Labour, Macmillan, London 1992 (p.
240)
Industrialisation in Developing Countries and Consequent Trade-Related
Restructuring Constraints in Finland, Labour Institute for Economic Research,
Helsinki 1985 (s. 410)
Youth and Conscription, (eds. Kimmo Kiljunen,
Jouko Väänänen), IPB, WRI, Peace Union of Finland, Jyväskylä 1987 (s. 272)
Finnish Peace Making (eds. Kimmo Kiljunen, Folke Sundman and Ilkka Taipale),
Peace Union of Finland, Helsinki 1987 (s. 380)