Ciarán O'Riordan
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Senior Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe, Ciarán O’Riordan has been working in Brussels since 2004 with a focus on EU policy related to free and open source software. Before 2004 he worked as a software developer and has been using GNU/Linux since 1998. Topics he has worked on include patents, copyrights, GDPR and market regulation such as the Cyber Resilience Act.