Pari Esfandiari

Pari Esfandiari is a British businesswoman. She 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 at the ICANN, representing European region, 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 in sustainability business from Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England.
Her latest co-authored publication is a study on "Data: Governance and Geopolitics".

Publications

Data: Governance and Geopolitics .Fighting Covid and an attempted coup: the shining moments of 2020 .Mark Zuckerberg, meet Jean-Jacques Rousseau? .American Democracy Held .Foreign Policy on the Home Front.Why data governance matters: Use, trade, intellectual property, and diplomacy .Remembering history so not to repeat it .The Iran crisis- the US has no strategy .The intelligence did not justify Soleimani’s assassination .Viewing tech giants as a geopolitical force .Data has paralleled oil in becoming an intensely political national security issue .