I build and help govern technology at the scale of international public institutions. For twenty years I have done this inside the United Nations, where I currently serve the Chief Information Technology Officer and lead the front office.
My work sits at the seam between policy, engineering, and public interest — in federated data architecture, AI governance, and the technology that underwrites multilateral cooperation.
Lead drafter of the first system-wide data strategy for the United Nations. Led the Infrastructure working group — cross-agency, spanning WFP, UNICEF, OHCHR, EOSG, DPPA-DPO and DFS — and built consensus around a federated, API-connected architecture and a human-centric principle in technical design, both adopted in the final strategy.
Co-conceived and led creation of the first shared data platform for the UN peace and security pillar, serving political affairs, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding across global operations. Now the common data surface for the pillar, and partnered with the Humanitarian Data Hub
Supported the CITO and General Assembly process that endorsed criteria and consolidation of first UN digital hubs — moving technology capacity out of high-cost duty stations into geographically representative global locations, addressing cost structure and equitable representation at once.
Creator of the first canonical database of policies, procedures, and guidelines governing UN peacekeeping — replacing mission-by-mission inconsistency with a shared reference for personnel and member states across every operation.
Supported CITO in the first logical-framework approach to measuring ICT strategy implementation across the UN, adopted by the General Assembly. Established the instrument through which member states now evaluate return on a $772M technology portfolio.
Designed and facilitated first showcase of AI prototypes in Secretariat, leading discussion of what AI means to UN staff and personnel
Designer and lead moderator of a seminar series on Outrageous Questions in Peace and Security — a venue for interrogating the harder, underexamined questions about data, conflict, and the digital conditions of political life.
Taught graduate seminars on Digital Identity and Evasion; Open Government Data; Information Technology and Justice; and What Happens When the Internet Dies?
Support to global operations in sensitive information handling, data analysis, information flow, joint operations and analysis centers. MINUSTAH Haiti post-earthquake, UNMIT Timor-Leste, OPCW-UN Mission in Syria, UNMEER Ebola Mission in West Africa, and COVID-19 Crisis Support.