Portrait of JARI-PEKKA KALEVA

Managing Director, European Games Developer Federation (EGDF)

Jari-Pekka Kaleva

  • 2023
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Jari-Pekka Kaleva is an institution nerd helping the game industry geeks to revolutionise the world we live in. At the moment, he works as Managing Director at the European game industry umbrella organisation EGDF and as Chief Policy Advisor at Neogames Finland association. He has more than a decade of experience tracking both national and EU-level political decision-making from the game industry’s point of view. Before he became a game industry advocate in Helsinki, J-P focused on researching literary institutions in his studies, worked at a games startup in Oulu, and was active in several civic organisations, both domestic and international.