Group X’s member Janne Saario has been selected Next Generation Leader 2016 by the prestigious American Time Magazine.

Janne Saario’s life rarely veers from skateboarding. The breezy former pro-skateboarder from Helsinki, 33, has turned a passion for skating into a calling, becoming one of the few landscape architects in the world to have devoted his entire practice to designing skateparks for young people, breaking away from the brutalist stereotypes of harsh concrete slopes and pyramids to create site-specific parks drawing heavily from their natural surroundings.

Read the article here, and see the full NGL 2016 list here.

Congratulations Janne!