Mika Tapani Lintilä (born 15 April 1966) is a Finnish politician who served as Minister of Economic Affairs from 2019 to 2023.
[6] On 27 October 2016, Lintilä was elected within the Centre Party to follow Olli Rehn as a Minister of Economic Affairs starting 29 December 2016.
[7][8] During his time in office, Finland's center-right government sold stakes in oil refiner and biofuel company Neste[9] while also strengthening national influence over the telecom network gear maker Nokia.
[10] Following the 2019 national elections, the Centre Party named Mika Lintilä as its candidate for the post of finance minister in the newly formed, centre-left coalition government led by Prime Minister Antti Rinne of the Social Democrats.
[13] In response to the 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires, Lintilä demanded publicly that the European Union should block imports of beef from Brazil, and also consider a suspension of soybeans import to put pressure on the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to counter the fires.