Area Editors

Interdisciplinary committees working across our overarching Areas of Interest to handle manuscripts, provide reviews and develop understanding of these areas of the data for policy space:

Area 1: Focus on Digital & Data-Driven Transformations in Governance

• Bonnie Buyuklieva (UCL, UK)
• Sarah Giest (Leiden University, Netherlands) - Lead 
• Sharique Manazir (Kautilya School of Public Policy, GITAM University, India)
• Anastasija Nikiforova (University of Tartu, Estonia)
• Sujit Kumar Sikder (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, Germany).
• Austin Zwick (Syracuse University, USA)

Area 2: Focus on Data Technologies & Analytics for Governance

• Tuba Bircan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
• Davide Carneiro (INESC TEC, Portugal)
• Benjamin Minhao Chen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• Giz Gulnerman (Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University, Turkey)
• Cigdem Gurgur (Purdue University, USA)
• Jude Dzevela Kong (York University, Canada)
• Roman Marchant (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
• Christian Mongeau (Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Italy)
• Mecit Can Emre Simsekler (Khalifa University of Science & Technology, UAE)
• Stéphane Koumétio Tékouabou (University of Yaounde, Cameroon)
• Michael Zimba (Malawi Institute of Technology, Malawi)

Area 3: Focus on Policy & Literacy for Data

• Julien Chaisse (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• Anushri Gupta (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
• Sherman Kong (The Digital Economist, Spain) - Lead
• Susan Oman (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Emanuela Podda (University of Milan, Italy)
• Mihoko Sumida (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
• Gaby Umbach (European University Institute, Italy) - Advisor
• Johanna Walker (King's College London, UK)
• Laura Zoboli (University of Brescia, Italy)

Area 4: Focus on Ethics, Equity & Trustworthiness

• Chiara Gallese (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
• Cigdem Gurgur (Purdue University, USA)
• Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK)
• Suneel Jethani (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
• Zihao Li (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Itzelle Medina-Perera (University of Sheffield, UK) 
• Nydia Remolina Leon (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Area 5: Focus on Algorithmic Governance

• Yanto Chandra (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• M. Lorena Florez Rojas (Groningen University, Netherlands)
• Jacqueline C.K. Lam (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• David Uriel Socol de la Osa (Hitotsubashi University, Japan) 
• Riccardo Vecellio Segate (Groningen University, Netherlands)
• Leid Zejnilovic (Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal) 

Area 6: Focus on Global Challenges & Dynamic Threats

• Patrick Brock (World Bank UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement, Denmark)
• Igor Calzada (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
• Claudia Lopes (United Nations University, Malaysia)
• Love Opeyemi David (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
• Chris Hinnant (Florida State University, USA)
• Leah Lazer (ICLEI Europe, Germany)
• Marta Poblet (RMIT University, Australia)
• Wilson Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 

Translational Committee

• Shahzad Asghar (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Jordan)
• Federico Bartolomucci (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy)
• Anna Cupani (UCL & The Alan Turing Institute, UK)
• Beverley Hatcher-Mbu (Development Gateway, USA)
• Milena Jael Silva (Ecolonical Lab, Colombia & France)
• Saeid Molladavoudi (Statistics Canada, Canada)
• Roberto Musmeci (European Commission, Belgium)
• Brad Wintersteen (Siting Resource Center, USA)

Editorial Board

Responsible for thematic commissioning, strategic advice and some manuscript handling:

• Omar Isaac Asensio (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Sarah Giest (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
• Mark Kennedy (Imperial College London, UK)
• Brad Klievink (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
• Innar Liiv (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
• Carsten Maple (University of Warwick, UK)
• Ilan Strauss (Social Science Research Council, USA)
• Wilson Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• Masaru Yarime (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
• Leid Zejnilovic (Nova School of Business & Economics, Portugal)

Advisory Board

Providing strategic advice and support:

• Roeland Beerten (Chief Statistician, Statistics Flanders, Belgium)
• Christopher Holmes MBE (Lord Holmes of Richmond) (UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain)
• William Hoffman (Head of Data-Driven Development, World Economic Forum, USA)
• Serge Kapto (Policy Specialist, Data for Development, United Nations Development Programme)
• Tariq Khokhar (Wellcome Trust, UK)
• Christoph Lütge (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
• Samia Melhem (Lead Digital Development Policy Specialist, World Bank)
• Roger Scott-Douglas (National Research Council of Canada)
• Michail Skaliotis (Eurostat, European Commission)
• Carlos Santiso (Digital Innovation in Government at the Development Bank of Latin America, Colombia)
• Tom Smith (Director of the Data Science Campus, Office for National Statistics, UK)
• Barbara Ubaldi (Digital Government and Open Data Lead, OECD)

Guest Editors

We're grateful to a number of people who have served in a Guest Editor capacity: inviting, reviewing and curating articles in special collections relevant to the Data & Policy scope. They are thanked on the page of the particular special collection that they've developed.