Ciarán O'Riordan

Ciarán O'Riordan is currently a Senior Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe. He has been working in Brussels since 2004 with a focus on EU policy, particularly on copyright and patents policy as well as community engagement for the drafting of version 3 of the GNU General Public License. A user of GNU/Linux and free software since 1998, his work has focussed on software policy but has also included automotive policy, GDPR, and corporate finance. He studied law at Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles. Before moving to Brussels Ciarán worked as a software developer in Dublin.