Ombudsman Jari Råman

The Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland is Doctor of Laws Jari Råman.

Jari Råman took office as Parliamentary Ombudsman on January 1, 2026.

Prior to his appointment as Parliamentary Ombudsman, Råman served as Secretary General at the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman from 2022 and acted as the Substitute for the Deputy Ombudsman from 2023 to 2025.

Prior to joining the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, Råman worked as Deputy Data Protection Ombudsman at the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman, as Information Management Manager and Registry Manager at the National Police Board, as a special advisor at the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman, and in various research and teaching positions at the University of Lapland.

In his research, Råman has focused particularly on the relationships between law and information and between law and technology.

Curriculum vitae

Education

  • Doctor of Laws, University of Lapland 2006
  • Master of Laws, University of Lapland 2000
  • High school graduate, Oulainen High School, 1994

Career

  • Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman
    • Parliamentary Ombudsman 2026–
    • Substitute Deputy Parliamentary Ombudsman 2023–2025
    • Secretary General 2022–
  • Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman
    • Deputy Data Protection Ombudsman 2019 - 2022
    • Senior Specialist 2009 - 2010
  • National Police Board
    • Chief of Information Management 2016 - 2022
    • Chief Data Protection Officer 2010–2016
  • University of Lapland
    • Researcher (post-doc), Senior Assistant (Legal Informatics), Assistant (Legal Informatics), Researcher, Research Assistant, Government Trainee 1999–2009
  • Part-time positions
    • Hourly teacher, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä 2022
    • Specialist Counsel, Procopé & Hornborg Law Firm Ltd 2008–2009
    • Hourly teacher, Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu 2022–2024
    • Researcher, Oy L M Ericsson Ab, Oulu R&D 2001

Selected publications

  • Regulating Secure Software Development - Analysing the potential regulatory solutions for the lack of security in software, Acta Universitatis Lapponiensis 102, University of Lapland, Faculty of Law, Rovaniemi 2006, (doctoral dissertation).
  • European Court of Human Rights: Failure to take effective information security measures to protect sensitive personal data violates right to privacy – I v. Finland, no. 20511/03, July 17, 2008, Comput. Law Secur. Rep. 24(6): 562-565, 2008.
  • Building lawful interception capabilities: need for legal safeguards, pp. 254-264 in Sylvia Kierkegaard (ed.) Synergies and Conflicts in Cyberlaw, International Association of IT Lawyers 2008.
  • Information security is also a fundamental right, Lakimies – The Finnish Journal of Law 2006, pp. 818–824.
  • General law, general principles and impact assessment – proposals for developing information security regulation, in Aulis Aarnio et al. (eds.) From birth to death, the right to information – Ahti Saarenpää 60 Years, Publications of the Finnish Lawyers' Association, E-series No. 17, Finnish Lawyers' Association, Helsinki, 2006, pp. 329–350.
  • Contracting over the Quality Aspect of Security in Software Product Markets, in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Quality of Protection, pp. 19–27, workshop co-located with the 13th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’06), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, October 30, 2006, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA.
  • Network Effects and Software Development – Implications for Security, in Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), 5-8 January 2004, Big Island, HI, USA, CD-ROM / Abstracts Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society; Los Alamitos, CA.