Natalia Carfi

Natalia Carfi is the Open Government Coordinator at the Modernization and e-government Unit, Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency, Chilean Government. She is in charge of datos.gob.cl and is General Coordinator of Condatos 2015.

Michael Cañares

Michael Cañares is managing consultant of Step Up Consulting based in the Philippines. He manages five research projects related to open data: the Open LGU Research Project which looks into open data initiatives at the local level in the Philippines; an agency-readiness assessment on open data of the Philippine national departments; two synthesis papers – one on Open Data and Intermediaries and another on Open Data at the Sub-national Level; and action research on modes of capacity building on open data for civil society organizations. He also works part-time as project manager of the Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab Jakarta.

Martin Tisne

As director of policy at Omidyar Network since 2012, Martin brings extensive experience advocating for change in government and donor policies and driving sector-level change in the field of government transparency and accountability. Based in London, Martin leads policy, advocacy strategy, and related investments for the global Governance & Citizen Engagement initiative. Most recently, he was founding director of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, a collaborative of leading funders committed to strengthening democracy by empowering citizens to hold their governing institutions to account.

Liz manages the Overseas Development Institute’s collaboration with the World Bank, the “Partnership for Open Data”. She joined the ODI in 2014 from the Institute for Government (IfG), where she developed and project managed learning programs for politicians, public officials, and those engaging with government. While at the IfG, she took a secondment to the Africa Governance Initiative, providing support to new cabinet leaders in Sierra Leone.

Justin Arenstein

Justin Arenstein is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who is helping the African Media Initiative (AMI) to establish a digital innovation program to support experimentation in newsrooms across Africa. Justin is a veteran South African investigative journalist and media entrepreneur, recognized internationally as an expert in data-driven journalism and related new media technologies. He is co-founder of the pioneering independent news wire agency African Eye News Service (AENS).

José M. Alonso

José, Program Manager, Open Data, is an Open Data pioneer and advocate with extensive experience in the eGovernment and Web standards fields. He has held various leading roles in Open Data projects and initiatives at the local, regional, national and global levels, such as co-chairing the national Open Data Initiative in Spain. He also and directs research across the Global South such as the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Development Countries (ODDC) project.

John Wonderlich

John Wonderlich is the Policy Director for the Sunlight Foundation and one of the USA’s foremost advocates for open government. John spearheads Sunlight’s goal of changing the government by opening up key data sources and information to make government more accountable to citizens. He is a leading authority on transparency policy, from legislation and accountability in Congress to ethics and information policy in the executive branch.

Joel Gurin

Joel Gurin is President and Founder of the Center for Open Data Enterprise, a new Washington-based nonprofit that promotes the use of open data for social and economic impact. He is a leading international expert on open data –freely accessible public data that can drive entrepreneurship, business growth, scientific innovation, and programs for the public good. His book Open Data Now (McGraw-Hill), has helped define this emerging field.

Jean-Noé Landry

Jean- Noé Landry is Open North’s Director of Strategic Initiatives and Outreach. He is a democracy development expert with a passion for finding innovative ways to overcome barriers to citizen participation. Jean-Noé helped strengthen electoral processes, legislative and political institutions with the National Democratic Institute in Croatia, Serbia, Russia, the West Bank, Kenya, Algeria, and Tunisia. Over the past 5 years, as a co-founder of Montreal Ouvert and Québec Ouvert, he has focused on building and expanding the open data movement in Canada.

Yohanna Loucheur

Yohanna Loucheur coordinates activities related to aid transparency, including the International Aid Transparency Initiative, at Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. Since joining the Canadian federal government in 1997, she has worked on various files, including the knowledge-based economy and society, innovative financing for development, aid effectiveness policies, fiduciary risk management, and public financial management.

Francesco Checchi

Francesco Checchi is Anti Corruption and Public Accountability Specialist at the UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub. During the last 10 years his work has focused on promoting reforms of the public administrations in the countries of the Eastern European and the Commonwealth of Independent States for enhanced transparency, accountability, and anti corruption.

Francesco’s work focuses on providing support for capacity development to independent agencies and governmental units dealing with prevention of corruption, as well as the development of integrity and disciplinary mechanisms in line Ministries; among other areas. He recently conducted a series of studies and analysis in the area of IT and open data for improved social accountability of the public sectors.

Erik Waddell

Erik Waddell, a senior policy advisor in Canada’s Open Government Secretariat, has provided professional policy analysis and advice on key government issues including open government, regulatory reform, IT and telecommunications policy, foreign investment regulations, and government procurement. He has also worked as a senior media and communications professional, in both the public and private sectors. Erik was involved in drafting of both Canada’s first and second Open Government Action Plans for the Open Government Partnership.

David Eaves

A public policy and collaboration expert, entrepreneur, and open government activist, David advises several governments on open government and open data. He also advises businesses and nonprofits on open source strategies and community management. David was an affiliate with the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University, is a co-founder of ReCollect, a civic startup. He also sits on the advisory board of Code for All, Open North, and the executive board of Vision Vancouver

Sander van der Waal

As projects director at Open Knowledge, Sander oversees projects in the various areas of open knowledge, including Open Government Data, Open Access to research and Open Data for Development. Sander builds connections across the groups that make up the global Open Knowledge network and helps ensure the open data projects will make a positive impact on the world. Sander is a computer scientist and philosopher with a strong background in the open source world, having advised academic projects on open source software development at OSS Watch and contributed to projects at the Apache Software Foundation.

Claire Melamed

As Director of Growth, Poverty and Inequality, Growth, Poverty and Inequality at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Claire’s work focuses on measuring poverty and inequality, and how to use these insights to improve policy and outcomes. She heads ODI’s work on the post-2015 agenda, tracking political negotiations, co-leading the ‘MY World’ survey with UNDP, and working on ‘data revolution’.

Andrea Menapace

Andrea Menapace is T/AI’s part-time Program Officer, leading its work on New Technologies to help practitioners and funders strengthen their understanding of the role and impact of technical interventions in transparency and accountabilty initiatives. It also aims to stimulate the wider use of technology by leading civil society organizations working on transparency and accountability. Andrea coordinates TABridge, a network of practice aimed to foster better collaboration and knowledge sharing between technology groups and civil society organizations. He is also involved in brokering and supporting new research and other learning efforts around technicalinterventions in transparency and accountability initiatives.

Abhinav Bahl

As director at Global Integrity, Abhinav plays a key role in managing all of Global Integrity’s fieldwork on governance, anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability. He also designs and leads capacity building, outreach, and dissemination programs, and researches and designs new fieldwork methodologies and indicators. In addition, he performs analysis and quality control of data and reporting.

Fabrizio Scrollini

Fabrizio Scrollini is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Chairman of DATA, a Uruguayan-based NGO working on transparency, open data, and human development. Fabrizio is also the research coordinator of the Latin America Open Data Initiative, which seeks to promote the understanding, use and appropriation of Open Data in the region. As an academic Fabrizio is interested in accountability institutions, access to information, transparency and open data.

Jeanne Holm

Jeanne is the Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, driving innovation and data-driven decisions through enhanced data architectures for space missions, engineering, and science. Her work ranges from social media, virtual worlds, gaming, semantic web, and collaborative systems, including the award-winning NASA public portal (www.nasa.gov) and pioneering knowledge architectures and collaborative technologies within the U.S. Department of Defense.