Arpine Korekyan is a Governance and Public Administration Officer at the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). Among many topics, her work during the last 14 years focused on frontier technologies, AI, blockchain, Digital IDs, open government data, digital/electronic government, public participation, and public-sector innovation. She authored several chapters and spearheaded the work on data analysis for the last four publications of the UN E-Government Surveys.

Korekyan has more than 25 years of experience in sustainable development and prior to joining the UN DESA her career progressed in the fields of socio-economic development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and select countries in East Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. She holds Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2009), Master of Science degree in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Affairs, (2003) and Master of Arts degree in International Relations and History from Yerevan State University (1996).