Pari Esfandiari

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 ICANN, representing European region (Euralo), as well as a member of the GeoTech Action Council at the Atlantic Council. In addition, she serves at the APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council. She was a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

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 UNESCO and supported by Google Foundation for supporting women’s role in sustainable development. Esfandiari holds a doctorate from Oxford Brookes University 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) (Atlantic Council, 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).