Taru Rastas

Senior Adviser in the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications

Taru Rastas

Senior Adviser in the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications
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Biography

Ms Taru Rastas serves as Senior Adviser in the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications, where her responsibilities include Big Data and MyData policies and digital development. Currently, she runs a key government project on data utilisation in business activities. Previously, she has coordinated work on national digital strategies, information society policy, a digital single market, open data in transport and communications and open public sector information. Her background is in management consulting as an entrepreneur, with a special focus on intangibles, and in academic research on non-financial reporting. Before her present post she worked as Ministerial Adviser in the Ministry of Trade and Industry specialising in the industrial policy of service sector. She holds a Master’s degree in economics and has published books and articles on intellectual capital, data and services.

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