I’m Viivi Lähteenoja. I live in Helsinki, Finland, and I think about data for a living, which is kind of incredibly cool.
I’m a philosopher-practitioner working at the intersection of data, ethics, and policy. I currently work as Senior Data Strategist at 1001 Lakes, a Finnish consultancy specialised in the business, ethical, legal, and technical aspects of data sharing. I’m also a Senior Advisor to MyData Global, an international non-profit I co-founded, and a member of the Solid Project Advisory Committee. And I’m a doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, where I’m putting classical Greek virtue ethics to work on contemporary data practices and surveillance capitalism.