People

Lauren Howard is the Outreach and Engagement Specialist for Open Government at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. In her role she leads the Multi-stakeholder Forum on Open Government Secretariat as well as the Inclusive Open Government file. She strongly…

Currently based in Paris, Claudia Chwalisz is leading the OECD’s work on innovative citizen participation, which explores the paradigm change underway towards a more participatory, deliberative, and collaborative governance. She co-authored the first OECD report on this topic published in…

Dr. Don Lenihan is Senior Associate at the Institute on Governance in Ottawa, Canada. He is an internationally recognized expert on public engagement, accountability, and governance. Don has over 25 years of experience as a project leader, writer, speaker, senior…

Damian Carmichael is the Lead of APS Engage, a group in the Australian Public Service (APS) dedicated to building the engagement capability of the APS. Damian 25 years’ public sector experience in policy and service delivery and has held leadership…

Ana María Petersen is an independent consultant with experience in implementing and advising open government action plans since 2015 and is the author of “Gobierno abierto en Jalisco: un proceso de aprendizaje”, the Secretariat’s independent evaluation. 

Tarik Nesh-Nash joined OGP in June 2021 as a Senior Regional Coordinator of Africa and the Middle East. He brings diverse backgrounds in technology, law, business, and humanitarian fields with 20+ years of international field experience applied in more than…

José María joined the OGP in July 2020 as a Senior Program Officer for the Local Program to support national-local integration, enhance subnational participation in OGP and improve knowledge and learning opportunities for open government reformers. Previously, he has worked…

Hamzat Lawal (Hamzy!) is an accomplished advocate in Nigeria, with a track record of holding governments accountable to deliver on commitments to social programmes advocating for and tracking foreign aid and government spending at the grassroots. He is the Founder…

Jennryn Wetzler is the Assistant Director of Open Education at Creative Commons, and an ardent OGP enthusiast. At Creative Commons, she manages projects to increase access to education, as well as the CC Certificate program-- a training in open licensing,…