Born 10. March 1973, Dipl.-Physicist Georg Greve has a classic scientific background with an interdisciplinary diploma thesis in nanotechnology at the University of Hamburg.

A software developer since he was 12 years old, Georg Greve came in touch with GNU/Linux and Free Software around 1993 and was appointed European Speaker for the GNU Project in 1998. Since then he has been writing the "Brave GNU World", a monthly column about Free Software, which is published in several magazines as well as on the Internet in up to ten languages.

In early 2001 Georg Greve initiated the founding of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE, FSF Europe), the construction and coordination of which has kept him busy on European and global level in past years.

Within these activites between technology, politics, society, and economy, Georg Greve was for instance invited as an expert to the "Commission on Intellectual Property Rights" of the UK government and participated to the first phase of the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on behalf of the German coordination circle of Civil Society within the German governmental delegation.