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). During the last 14 years, her work focused on frontier technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, Digital IDs, open government data, digital government, public e-participation, and public-sector innovation.

She authored several chapters and spearheaded the work on data analysis for the last five flagship publications of the United Nations E-Government Surveys. Korekyan has more than 25 years of experience in sustainable development and, prior to joining UN DESA, her career progressed in the fields of socio-economic development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and many countries in East Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

She holds a 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 the Yerevan State University (1996).