People

James Lowry is a lecturer in the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies. He led the development of the UK government's commitment on records management in its Open Government Partnership National Action Plan (2013-15), and he was a member of…

Lancelot Pecquet helps organizations find their way and evolve in a fast-changing world. After working about ten years as a researcher in mathematics and computer science in France, USA and Australia, he became a management consultant in 2006 and founded…

Asoka Obeyesekere is the Executive Director of Transparency International Sri Lanka. He is a barrister and political scientist. Prior to joining TISL, Asoka was a Governance Consultant at Verité Research, where he founded and led the Manthri.lk team that runs…

Elizabeth is an Environmental Democracy Specialist with WRI’s The Access Initiative, where she leads research on a variety of international and country-specific policy issues related to access to information, public participation, and access to justice. Elizabeth currently manages the Strengthening…

Elected three times by the European Parliament, Emily O’Reilly served as European Ombudsman from 2013 until 2025. As watchdog of the EU administration including the EU Commission and regulatory institutions and agencies such as the European Central Bank, the European…

Marco is a research and communications analyst by day, a data extractor by night, weekends and holidays. He works at Bantay Kita / Publish What Pay Philippines and has a keen interest in how the use of technology can address community issues…

A systems design engineer by training, Megan has over a decade of experience promoting adaptive development. As Co-Director of Engineers Withour Borders Canada’s program in Malawi, Megan focused on finding ways to strengthen formal and informal feedback loops in the…

Elisa Peter (@ElisaPeter) is the former Executive Director of Publish What You Pay (PWYP). PWYP is a civil society movement of 700+ member organisations working in 45 countries to promote transparency, citizen participation and accountability in the extractive sector (oil,…

Nnenna advocates for open data, open government and the open Web across Africa, bringing together local and international stakeholders to advance the open agenda. She works to drive forward the Africa Data Consensus, the Africa Open Data Network, the Africa Open Data…