NAME: Hassi, Satu Maijastiina.

FINLAND

POLITICAL GROUP: Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA).

PARTY: Vihreä liitto.

CONSTITUENCY: Finland.

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: Vice-Chairwoman, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (all in the European Parliament, EP) since 2004; Member, Temporary Committee on Climate Change; Member, Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan; Parliamentary Co-operation Committees and for Relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia; Substitute, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Substitute, Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Co-operation Committee.

Political Career: Member of the European Parliament since 2004; Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (EP) since 2004; Vice-Chair of the Committee on Environment (National Parliament) 2003-2004; Member of Parliament (National Parliament) 1991-2004; Chairperson of the Green Parliamentary Group (National Parliament) 2000-2003; Minister for Environment and Development Co-operation 1999-2002; Chairperson of the Greens (National Parliament) 1997-2001; Member of Tampere City Council 1985-2000.

Special Political Interests: Saving civilisation from disastrous climate change.

Profession: Licentiate of Technology in Power Electrical Engineering.

Titles/honours/decorations: Golden Peacock Global Award for Environmental Leadership 2006; Hart World Refining Fuels Policy Award 2005; International Award for Outstanding Contribution for Environment, Priyadarshni Academy, Mumbai, India, 2002.

Education: Helsinki University of Technology; Tampere University of Technology.

Qualifications: MSc in Electrical Power Engineering; Licentiate of Technology in Electrical Power Engineering.

Languages: Finish, Swedish, English, German and Russian.

Author of: (all in Finnish) My Hair on a Hat Shelve, Diary of an Environment Minister. (2002); (co-authors Jukka Hatakka, Heimo Saarikko and Jukka Valjakka) Physics for High School. (1994-2001); Lilith and King Adam's New Clothes. (1990); The Wall Which Doesn´t Exist – Exercises on Disobedience, Diary of a City Council Member. (1988); The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge. (1987); ‘Woman's Perspective on Technology’. [report] (1986). Female Screw. [novel] (1986); No More Shame for Magdalene. [poems] (1984).

Hobbies: The World yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Born: 3 June 1951, Helsinki, Finland.

Marital status: Married.

Children: 2.