Pari Esfandiari Explained

Pari Esfandiari is the co-founder and president of the Global TechnoPolitics Forum^[1] and CEO of Pario.^[2] She is a member of the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) at the ICANN, representing European region (Euralo),^[3] as well as a member of the GeoTech Action Council at the Atlantic Council.^[4] In addition, she serves at the APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council. She was a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.^[5]

Esfandiari is an entrepreneur, internet pioneer and sustainable development executive.^[6] She has worked across diverse industries ranging from FinTech, e-commerce and smart cities.^[7] Her social enterprise was showcased by UNESCO and supported by Google Foundation for supporting women’s role in sustainable development.^[8]  Esfandiari holds a doctorate from Oxford Brookes University in sustainability business.

Her latest publication is a major study on "Data:Governance and Geopolitics".^[9]

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).

References

1. Web site: Pari Esfandiari – Global TechnoPolitics Forum. 2021-06-06. en-US.
2. Web site: PARIO - Pari Esfandiari. 2021-06-06. www.parioconsultants.com.
3. Web site: Pari Esfandiari - ICANNWiki. 2021-06-06. icannwiki.org.
4. Web site: Pari Esfandiari, PhD. 2021-06-06. Atlantic Council. en-US.
5. Web site: Pari Esfandiari - APCO Worldwide. 2021-06-06. en.
6. Web site: Pari Esfandiari. 2021-06-06. TheArticle.
7. Web site: Pari Esfandiari – Global TechnoPolitics Forum. 2021-06-06. en-US.
8. Web site: OII OII's Wednesday Webinar Week 3 'Data, Governance and Geopolitics'. 2021-06-06. www.oii.ox.ac.uk.
9. Web site: Data: Governance and Geopolitics. 2021-06-06. www.csis.org. en.