Catharina is a senior legal and policy expert with more than 20 years of leadership in intellectual property and Open Source governance. She began her career directing Creative Commons’ global license porting project and later founded the Software Compliance Academy to support organizations in their Open Source journey. Currently serving as Nokia’s Head of Standardization Policy, she also brings experience from the the World Economic Forum where she served on the Council for the Future of the Intellectual Property System. She is also a Project Professor at the Cyber Civilization Research Center at Keio University in Japan, alongside past academic appointments at leading universities worldwide. Elected to the Open Source Initiative’s board in 2021, she served as chair from 2022 to 2024.
