Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof

BITNATION Founder and President: Susanne is an international entrepreneur, tech investor, and writer. She has worked in Sweden, France, Brazil, China, Afghanistan, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, United States, Libya, Egypt and Indonesia in the past. 

In 2008 she started Wise Strategic Communication, the first Afghan strategic communication company, which she sold in February 2011 to a US contracting firm. In the wake of the Arab Spring, in 2011 she started Shabakat Corporation in Egypt and Libya to support local grassroots movements. After the end of the civil war in Libya she turned Shabakat into a technology company, to provide crypto investment consultancy, currency mining in Indonesia, and other frontier applications. In July 2014 she started BITNATION, a decentralised organisation aimed at providing 'Governance 2.0' Services: Borderless > Decentralised > Voluntary --- primarily through leveraging the Bitcoin blockchain technology.

She’s the author of the forthcoming book “The Googlement - The DIY Guide To Starting Your Own Nation (And Changing The World)” - Nortia Press, and a regular writer and speaker at conferences, having appeared in New York Times, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, The PanamPost, CoinTelegraph, Swedish and French Television, TEDx, and many other venues.