Tapani Tarvainen

Who, what, where?

• Computer professional, human rights activist.
• Since 2000 chief engineer at Faculty of Information Technology of Jyväskylä University,
  before that a consultant for Lucent Technologies in Saudi Arabia.
• Vice President of Electronic Frontier Finland (member since 2002, board member since 2004, President 2006-2010).
• Deputy member of Finnish Data Protection Board 2012-2018.
• Member of Finnish Advisory Board on Copyright Affairs since 2015.
• Member of ICANN's GNSO's Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) since 2009,
  member of NCUC's Executive Committee 2012-2013,
  member of Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group's (NCSG's) Executive Committee 2015,
  Chair of NCSG 2015-2017.
• Involved in Internet Governance Forum ever since its founding at Wold Summit on the Information Society in 2005.
• Member of Steering Committee of IGF's Internet Rights and Principles coalition 2014-2015.
• Regular speaker and co-organizer in Finnish Internet Forum since its founding in 2010.
• Hobbies include photography and travel.
• Living in Jyväskylä, Finland.