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Portrait of Cathal Gilbert

Cathal Gilbert

Cathal Gilbert is the coordinator of the CIVICUS Monitor, a platform which tracks and rates civic space conditions for every country in the world. Prior to joining CIVICUS, Cathal worked for almost a decade on human rights, civil society and governance…

Isabella Lövin

Isabella Lövin is the Minister for International Development Cooperation at Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is an acclaimed journalist and author and was elected in 2009 to be a Member of the European Parliament, where she served until 2014.…

Portrait of Peter Veit

Peter Veit

Peter is Director of the Land and Resources Rights (LRR) initiative. LRR seeks to strengthen land tenure and natural resource rights of rural people and communities by: 1) conducting research and generating new knowledge on critical property rights issues; 2)…

Portrait of Jessica Webb

Jessica Webb

Jessica is the Civil Society Specialist for Global Forest Watch, a free and powerful monitoring platform that promotes transparency by providing near real-time information on the state of forests globally. In close collaboration with the Governance Center team, Jessica leads efforts…

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Helen Clark

Helen Clark is a global leader on sustainable development, gender equality and international co-operation. She was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999-2008 and served as the Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) from 2009-2017. She is an…

Portrait of Sangita Sigdyal

Sangita Sigdyal

Sangita Sigdyal joined the Open Government Partnership in November 2014 as its Director of Operations. She was responsible for OGP's operations including finance, human resources and other functions to effectively carry out OGP's four-year strategy. Prior to joining OGP, she…

Raden Siliwanti

Raden Siliwanti is currently Director for State Apparatus at Ministry of National Development Planning / National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her previous professional experiences include serving as Director for Politics and Communication Affairs (Bappenas), and National Project…

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Sugeng Bahagijo

Sugeng Bahagijo is the Executive Director of INFID, an Indonesian NGO focusing on the SDGs, inequality, and human rights. He served as a civil society member of the OGP Steering Committee from 2014-2017.

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Tiago Carneiro Peixoto

Tiago is a Senior Public Sector Specialist at the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice. Having joined the Bank in 2010, Tiago’s activities focus on working with governments to develop solutions for better public policies and services. Prior to joining the…

Portrait of Lara Samuels

Lara Samuels

Lara Samuels - Communications Adviser to CoST Lara has been advising CoST on communications issues since April 2012 and is the Director of The Communications Hub - a communications consultancy specialising in strategy and planning. Having begun her career at a global advertising…

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