Jyrki Kasvi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jyrki Kasvi

Finnish journalist, politician and researcher

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1964

Place of Birth: Pyhtää, Southern Finland Province, Finland

Profession: politician, researcher, journalist, blogger

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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About Jyrki Kasvi

  • Jyrki Jouko Juhani Kasvi (born in Pyhtää, Finland on 6 January 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 was again elected in 2015.
  • 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.Kasvi's surname means "plant" in Finnish.

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