New Members of the OGP Steering Committee Announced

Government Members of the Steering CommitteeThe Steering Committee is OGP’s executive decision-making body. Its role is to develop, promote and safeguard OGP’s values, principles and interests; establish OGP’s core ideas, policies, and ru...

We are pleased to announce the outcome of the second annual election for government members of the OGP Steering Committee. The terms of three government Steering Committee members – Indonesia, the Philippines and Tanzania – come to an end next month. Five governments put themselves forward for these places: Chile, Indonesia (for re-election), Romania, Sierra Leone and Tunisia. 

The voting period opened on July 1 and concluded on July 30th with nearly 90% of OGP’s participating countries casting a vote (56 out of 65). Chile finished first in the election followed by Romania and Indonesia in a tie for second place. The new Steering Committee will formally be in place from October 1st 2015.  

More details on the rotation result are available here: http://www.opengovpartnership.org/2015-Steering-Committee-Election-Results

Civil Society Members of the Steering Committee

To fill a vacancy in the civil society membership of the Steering Committee, following Alvin Mosioma’s resignation last month, the search committee who led the 2014 selection of new representatives reconvened to select a replacement.  After reviewing the scores and profiles of the previous final round candidates, mindful of geographical diversity and the current OGP strategic priorities, the search committee recommended that Fernando Straface join the Steering Committee.

Fernando Straface is co-founder, and since April 2010, the Executive Director of CIPPEC (http://www.cippec.org), a top think tank in Argentina. His areas of expertise include good governance, public sector reform/evaluation and civil society. He has 17 years of experience that combine regional and international positions with commitmentOGP commitments are promises for reform co-created by governments and civil society and submitted as part of an action plan. Commitments typically include a description of the problem, concrete action... to the Argentine public policy field. Between 2003 and 2008 he acted as governance specialist at the IDB in Washington DC, leading projects in 14 countries in Latin America. In Argentina he acquired both public service and academic experience in his field of expertise. Straface received his M.A. from Harvard University (Kennedy School of Government) and a B.A. in Political Science from USAL in Argentina.