Jani Joenniemi

PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, EARS

Jani is the co-founder and partner of Radii Ventures – a design agency that works with Nordic businesses and design companies to help Chinese innovation find markets in Europe. 
Jani is also the co-founder and program director of EARS (Europe-Asia Roundtable Sessions) – a conference series building connections between the creative and content industries of Europe and Asia.
Jani has close to 20 years of experience in working and studying in China. He has worked as a project manager for various cultural export agencies and organisations in the fields of music, performing arts and design focusing especially on Chinese and Asian markets. He has also worked as the General Manager for a Chinese-Finnish arts management joint venture and as the director of culture program for Finland at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.