Jyrki Kasvi

Jyrki Jouko Juhani Kasvi (born January 6th, 1964) is a Finnish politician and member of Finnish Parliament, representing the Green League. He was elected to the parliament in 2003. He has also been a member of the city council of Espoo from 1997.

Kasvi was born in Pyhtää, Finland. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Helsinki University of Technology. He has written several books about computers. Kasvi is married to the opera singer Maria Boman and they have one child, Ilmari (b. 1994). Kasvi has been the editor of Kosmoskynä, the magazine of Finnish Science Fiction Writer's Association, a games reviewer in the MikroBITTI magazine and a columnist in the Pelit magazine under the pseudonym Wexteen the Wizard.

Kasvi's surname means "plant" in Finnish.

External link

The official website of Jyrki Kasvi (in Finnish)