In August 2019 she was elected Director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats.

[2] In 2015, she was selected for the Panel of Eminent Persons on European Security, a Common Project by the ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger.

[3] She served in the service of Ilkka Kanerva, and subsequently Alexander Stubb for a short time.

[2] In 2018, she joined the Peace and Security Cluster at the School of Transnational Governance as a part-time professor.

[2] In August 2019, Tiilikainen was elected to a five year term as the director of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, a research centre in Helsinki that studies possible responses to hybrid warfare threats to The European Union and NATO.