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Carina Paju

Carina supports the public sectors and civil society in Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in their open government efforts. Additionally, she coordinates the subregional Nordic+ group. She joined OGP in 2022 before which she headed the Estonian…

Gotzon Bernaola

Gotzon Bernaola is the General Coordinator of Business Innovation at Innobasque - Basque Innovation Agency. His experience over the years has been focused on innovation and the implementation of innovative governance models in collaboration with the agents of the territory.…

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Miren Martiarena Barkaiztegi

Miren Martiarena Barkaiztegi is the Open Government Director at the Government of the Basque Country since April 2021. She has also more than 12 years’ experience in local- municipality level policies practice. She promotes public policies, channels and actions to strengthen…

Aidan Harris

Aidan Harris

Aidan joined the Open Government Partnership in February 2022. He coordinates with the Country Support and Thematic teams to design and implement strategies for engaging with multilateral global forums and processes, including the G7, G20, Summit for Democracies and other…

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Inita Pauloviča

Inita Pauloviča is currently the advisor to the Director of the State Chancellery of the Republic of Latvia on public administration policy issues.  She is the former Deputy Director of the State Chancellery and has played a key role in…

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Patrick Harvie

Patrick Harvie (Member of the Scottish Parliament) was appointed as the Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants' Rights in September 2021. Before becoming an MSP he worked for a sexual health charity as an LGBT youth worker…

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Arpine Hakobyan

Experienced manager, CSO sector expert, researcher, impact assessment specialist of development projects, certified trainer. Ms. Arpine Hakobyan has 20 years of professional management experience in the non-profit sector. Being a manager and later a president of “NGO Center” Civil Society…

Nana Tavdumadze

Initiator and co-author of best practices in Self-Government. Coordinator, Mentor, Expert Nana is working on implementation of the project “Participatory budget in Georgia". She cooperates with various organizations concerning transparency, accountable self-government and other related issues. As well as in…

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