Pari Esfandiari

Pari Esfandiari is a British businesswoman. She 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 in sustainability business from Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England.

Her latest co-authored publication is a 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. "Pari Esfandiari – Global TechnoPolitics Forum" . Retrieved 2021-06-06.
2. "PARIO - Pari Esfandiari". www.parioconsultants.com. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
3. "Pari Esfandiari - ICANNWiki". icannwiki.org. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
4. "Pari Esfandiari, PhD". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
5. "Pari Esfandiari - APCO Worldwide" . Retrieved 2021-06-06.
6. "Pari Esfandiari". TheArticle. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
7. "Pari Esfandiari – Global TechnoPolitics Forum" . Retrieved 2021-06-06.
8. "OII | OII's Wednesday Webinar Week 3 'Data, Governance and Geopolitics'". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
9. Treverton, Gregory F.; Esfandiari, Pari (11 January 2021). "Data: Governance and Geopolitics". www.csis.org. Retrieved 2021-06-06.