Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof

Bitnation: Founder and CEO

Tarkowski Tempelhof is an award-winning entrepreneur, cryptoactivist and writer who lives and works in an international environment. In the 2000s, she built up and sold multimillion dollar contracting businesses in Afghanistan and Libya. Her companies conducted groundbreaking research on governance for the U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense. Tarkowski Tempelhof's goal is to use radical technologies and resilient peer-to-peer networks to create a boundless and voluntary post-national state society. She founded Bitnation, the world's first blockchain nation and jurisdiction in 2014, won the UNESCO Netexplo Award for Bitnation in 2017 and was named by WIRED as one of the world's innovators in the fight for your online privacy. Susanne has appeared in the 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 events.