Satu Hassi

Hassi served as the leader of her party between 1999 and 2001. She was a member of the national parliament from 1991 to 2004; she left the parliament when she was elected to the European Parliament as the sole Finnish Green representative in the 2004 election. In the European Parliament she was the coordinator of the Greens/EFA parliamentary group in the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a vice member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. She served in the European Parliament until 2014. In April 2015, Hassi was re-elected to the Finnish Parliament and took on the role as chairperson of the Environment Committee. She remained in office following the election of 2019, but decided to retire at the end of the term in 2023, as the oldest woman in parliament at the time. Hassi was previously a taistoist, a pro-Soviet member of the Communist Party in the 1970s.

Satu Hassi studied at Aalto University. The recorded working language is Finnish. Places of work recorded in the authority are Strasbourg, Brussels and Helsinki. Residence is recorded at Tampere. Positions recorded include member of the Parliament of Finland and municipal councillor in Finland. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

Hassi has a licentiate in technology, has worked as an engineer in a power company and taught at Tampere University of Technology. She has published three novels, a collection of poems and several essays; she has also been co-author of a series of physics books for high school students. Hassi was a member of the board of directors of the former Worldwatch Institute. She was also a vice chairman of the parliamentary network Globe EU. She has been granted the Golden Peacock Global Award for Environmental Leadership, Hart World Refining Fuels Policy Award and the International Award for Outstanding Contribution for Environment of the Priyadarshni Academy. Hassi is a breast cancer survivor.