Pari Esfandiari is the co-founder and president of the Global TechnoPolitics Forum and CEO of Pario. She is a member of the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) at the

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, representing European region (Euralo), as well as a member of the GeoTech Action Council at the

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. In addition, she serves at the

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’s International Advisory Council. She was a non-resident senior fellow at the

. Esfandiari is an entrepreneur, internet pioneer and sustainable development executive. She has worked across diverse industries ranging from FinTech, e-commerce and smart cities. Her social enterprise was showcased by

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and supported by Google Foundation for supporting women’s role in sustainable development. Esfandiari holds a doctorate from

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in sustainability business. Her latest publication is a major study on "Data:Governance and Geopolitics".

Publications

* ''Data: Governance and Geopolitics'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) (CSIS, 2021). * ''Fighting Covid and an attempted coup: the shining moments of 2020'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) (the Article, 2021). * ''Mark Zuckerberg, meet Jean-Jacques Rousseau?'' (with Gregory F. Treverton and John Walcott) ( the Hill, 2021). * ''American Democracy Held'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) ( Global TechnoPolitics Forum). * ''Foreign Policy on the Home Front'' (with Gregory F. Treverton and John Walcott). * ''Why data governance matters: Use, trade, intellectual property, and diplomacy'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) (

, 2020). * ''Remembering history so not to repeat it'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) (the Article, 2020). * ''The Iran crisis- the US has no strategy'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) (the Article, 2020). * ''The intelligence did not justify Soleimani’s assassination'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) (the Article, 2020). * ''Viewing tech giants as a geopolitical force'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) ( the Hill, 2020). * ''Data has paralleled oil in becoming an intensely political national security issue'' (with Gregory F. Treverton) ( the Hill, 2019).

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