Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof

Tarkowski Tempelhof is an award-winning entrepreneur, a crypto

activist and writer, working in frontier environments. In the 2000s she built and sold multimillion-dollar contracting businesses in Afghanistan and Libya. Her companies conducted pioneering research on governance for the US State Department and Department of Defence. Tarkowski Tempelhof’s aim is to leverage radical technologies and resilient peer-to-peer networks to create borderless and voluntary post-nation state society. She founded Bitnation, the world's first blockchain nation and jurisdiction in 2014. In 2017 she won the UNESCO Netexplo Award for Bitnation, and was named by WIRED as one of the leading innovators of the world fighting for your online privacy. Susanne has appeared in New York Times, WIRED, VICE, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, BBC, CNN, Nasdaq.com, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Russia Today, Canal+, TEDx and many other high profile venues.