Ville Niinistö is a Finnish politician and a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. In the ninth legislative term, he has been serving as the Greens/EFA groups coordinator in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and a member of the Committee on Environment (ENVI).
Ville is a former member of the Finnish parliament, a former chairperson of the Finnish Green party. From 2011 to 2014, he served as Minister of the Environment. Ville has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Turku. Before being elected to the parliament in 2007 he worked as a doctorate student in political history at the University of Turku in Finland.