Ari Turunen has written 11 non-fiction books. His books have been translated to 11 different languages. Turunen is the most translated non-fiction writer in Finland. His books reveal in a hilarious way why we behave like we do. They offer a witty – and occasionally blunt –Nordic view to cultural and global history. One of his books Brute Force tells the story of the world class icebreakers for which Finland is renown.

Don’t you know who I am?

Above 60 degrees north live only 10 million people of which half are Finns. I am one of them. Obviously I admire Finnish icebreakers which guarantee that Finns get the latest fashion clothes from France and Italy in time also during harsh winter months. In addition to the writing of non-fiction books (one is Don’t you know who I am? The History of Arrogance) I like working as a communications consultant in this agency.

Some of the projects I have contributed to

SLOW Finland. Wellbeing from Finland’s nature
European institute of technology and innovation, Trusted Cloud
N4S-programme (Agile and Lean Software-project)
Cloud Software Programme
ELIXIR (Bioinformatics-project)
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group
Partnership of Advanced Computing Infrastructure in Europe (PRACE)

… and as a Head of Communications I worked some years in the following organizations

Currently I also work as an editor-in-chief of the Finnish edition of Le Monde Diplomatique

Ari Turunen

Ari Turunen is a Finnish writer and science editor. He is a Licentiate of Social Sciences and his thesis was a about the politics of different world maps and world views.

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