Jyrki Kasvi

Jyrki Kasvi
Born (1964-01-06) January 6, 1964
Pyhtää, Finland
Occupation Finnish MP representing the Green League
Website www.kasvi.org

Jyrki Jouko Juhani Kasvi (born in Pyhtää, Finland on January 6, 1964) is a Finnish politician. He has been a member of the Finnish Parliament, representing the Green League. In the Parliament he was most active in the Committee for the Future, which he represented in the European Parliamentary Technology Assessment network (EPTA), related to technology assessment. He was first elected to the Parliament in 2003, re-elected for a second term in 2007, and lost his seat in the election of 2011. He has also been, among other things, a member of the city council of Espoo since 1997 and the second vice-president of the International Parliamentarians' Association for Information Technology (IPAIT) since 2004.

Kasvi has a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology. He has written several books about computers and information society. Kasvi is married to the opera singer Maria Boman and they have one child, Ilmari (b. 1994). Kasvi has been the editor in chief of Kosmoskynä, the magazine of Finnish Science Fiction Writer's Association, a games reviewer in the computer magazine MikroBitti and a columnist in the computer games magazine Pelit, under the pseudonym Wexteen the Wizard. An avid fan of Star Trek, he added a Klingon version of his campaign re-election website in 2007.[1]

Kasvi's surname means "plant" in Finnish.

Bibliography

Kasvi representing the Green League speaking in the Plenum Hall of the Finnish Parliament.

Some English papers:

Science fiction short stories:

List of public offices

References

  1. Reuters (March 9, 2007). "Finnish MP seeks votes in Klingon". Retrieved on March 12, 2007.

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