Jan Juslén

Director of Information Management at the Finnish Transport Agency (FTA)

Jan Juslén is ERTRAC Vice-Chairman representing Member States and road infrastructures

Mr. Juslén has an MSc degree in Economics and Administration (1987) and a BA degree in Philology (1984) from the University of Tampere.

After graduation, Mr. Juslén worked as an expert and project manager in several transport sector consulting companies for over fifteen years. He specialized in projects related to land-use planning, transport system modelling, transport infrastructure feasibility studies and asset management. During this time he also held the position of Team Leader on numerous long and short-term overseas projects funded by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, EU programs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Finland.

Mr. Juslen joined the Finnish Road Administration (Finnra) in 2000 where he was first responsible for major software projects focused on road network modelling, asset management and maintenance operations and was later promoted to the position of Director responsible for Road and Traffic Information Management. In this position he also served as representative of Finnra in international co-operation with the Nordic countries, CEDR TG Research, ERTICO, etc.

Since the establishment of the Finnish Transportation Agency (FTA) in 2010, he has been responsible for digitalization and software development programs, ITS development, transport system automation and test ecosystems and heading the Information Management Department.

Mr. Juslén has been Finland representative in the ERTRAC Plenary for over five years.