Elettra Ronchi

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ELETTRA RONCHI

Elettra Ronchi, PhD, MPP, is currently senior policy consultant and lecturer in data governance, privacy and digital health. In her former capacity as Head of Unit in the Division for Digital Economy Policy at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, she has led work on data governance, privacy and risk management for over a decade. Work under her guidance has included the review of the implementation of the OECD Privacy Guidelines, the development and OECD Council adoption of the 2021 OECD Recommendation on Enhancing Access and Sharing of Data, the 2021 Recommendation on Children in the Digital Environment and the 2016 Recommendation on Health Data Governance. During her career as international policy analyst, Dr. Ronchi has worked extensively on evaluating the conditions for system innovation and digital transformation which she has examined in a variety of sectors with a particular focus on health care systems. She has served as an expert on various advisory boards and panels, including most recently the Ethics Advisory Council of the International Covid-19 Data Alliance, the Working Group on Data Governance of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, and the Foundation Board of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Elettra Ronchi started her policy career in 1993 as consultant for the United Nations Development Programme, before which she held academic research and teaching positions in the U.S. and France.