Education
University of Tampere.
University of Tampere.
Tynkkynen is the chair of the Green parliamentary group. He served as Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen"s Advisor on Climate Policy. He has also held positions in numerous other organisations, such as Friends of the Earth Finland.
He was directly elected to the Parliament in 2007.
Tynkkynen was born in Jyväskylä, Finland. He graduated from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere.
From the age of 14 he has been active in environmental and developmental organizations. Tynkkynen has written articles in many newspapers and has been a reporter for YLE"s radio news.
His writings often concentrate on equity and the environment, especially climate change.
Tynkkynen is running for election to the European Parliament. In his free time he enjoys sports, reading, electronic music and traveling
Also Tynkkynen is a Member of the City Council of Tampere and an environmental activist. Oras Tynkkynen became a member of Parliament in 2004 as a replacement when Satu Hassi left her seat upon her election to the European Parliament. He is a founding member of Friends of the Earth Finland and has been its vice president in 1996-1997 and in the spring of 2004.
He was the first openly gay Member of the Parliament of Finland, but has since been joined by others, such as Jani Toivola and Silvia Modig.
