Nele Leosk serves as the Ambassador-at-Large for Digital Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, being responsible for the development and coordination of Estonia’s digital diplomacy. Over the past twenty years, she has advised political and public sector leaders in digital governance and digital economy in more than forty countries in Central and Eastern Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. She has to lead the development and execution of government digitalization strategies and initiatives but has also hands-on experience in the development of digital services and e-participation tools. Apart from government work, she has experienced the life of the private sector, international and inter-governmental organizations such as the UNDP, UNU-eGOV, OECD as well as academia. As a promoter of an open, fair, and inclusive digital society, Nele is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Governance, advisory board member of GovStack – an initiative promoting digital public architecture and digital public goods, and several networks advocating gender equality. Nele holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute (EUI), Italy. She is a former Fulbright-Schuman grantee at the National Centre for Digital Government at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at the Governance Lab at New York University, USA.
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