Marko got his Master's degree in Cultural Studies in 1997 but has worked with public services in various capacities since 2003. He was in the team developing and managing the Suomi.fi services until 2017 when he started to ask questions about the impacts of the new tech on public service development and delivery.
He got seriously interested in the ethical issues of AI and led the ethics team of the AuroraAI program. Marko is currently in the foresight, research and university collaboration team in the Finnish Digital Agency DVV.

Besides his family, Marko's important things in life are human rights, Celtic folk music, playing the drums, e-biking, cats, history and movies.