Haavisto, Pekka
Name Mr Jukka Haavisto MP
Years active: 21.03.1987 - 23.03.1995, 21.03.2007 -
Party: Green Parliamentary Group
Constituency: Helsinki
Roles[edit]
Earlier memberships in committees:
- Education and Culture Committee (member) 1987 - 1990
- Foreign Affairs Committee (deputy member) 1990 - 1990, (member) 1991 - 1994, (member) 03.04.2007 - 17.10.2013
- Legal Affairs Committee (member) 1991 - 1992
- Grand Committee (deputy member) 03.05.2007 - 18.12.2007, (member) 19.12.2007 - 06.05.2008, (deputy member) 07.05.2008 - 19.04.2011, (member) 03.05.2011 - 29.06.2011
- Defence Committee (member) 03.05.2007 - 17.10.2013
- Finnish Delegation to the Nordic Council (member) 1991 - 1993
- The Finnish Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (deputy member) 03.05.2007 - 12.02.2008
- Administrative Council of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (member) 30.06.2011 - 22.10.2013
- Finnish Delegation to the Parliamentary Joint Commission of the European Economic Area (member) 1993 - 1994
- Finnish Delegation to the Joint Commission of the European Parliament and the Finnish Parliament (member) 1993 - 1993
Parliamentary groups:
- Green Parliamentary Group 21.03.1987 - 23.03.1995, 21.03.2007 -
Position in the parliamentary group:
- Green Parliamentary Group (chair) 22.06.2011 - 29.05.2013; 1987-1988; 1993
Education[edit]
He matriculated at the Munkkivuoren yhteiskoulu.
History[edit]
He worked as an editor-in-chief of Komposti magazine, Suomi-lehti magazine and Vihreä Lanka magazine. He was in various UN tasks, led UNEP assessment teams, for example in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Palestine and Sudan and he was also the head of UNEP’s Depleted Uranium Assessment Team in Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia-Hertzegovina, a UNEP representative investigating the Baia Mare mine accident in Romania and a visiting researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He aso lectures regularly at the University of Helsinki and the NATO School in Oberammergau. In addition he was a Special representative of the European Union for Sudan and Darfur, an UN special expert on the Darfur peace process and a Special representative of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs for African crises.
