David Sangokoya is the Project Lead, Society and Innovation at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. He leads multi-stakeholder initiatives at the Forum related to driving stakeholder responsibility for social justice in technology, data and global public goods, including the Forum’s initiative on Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With ten years of experience in research and nonprofit management, his background is in civil society managing complexity, negotiating power and responding to societal impacts brought on by the design, deployment and governance of digital and emerging technologies. Prior to the Forum, David was the Research Manager at Data-Pop Alliance, a global coalition on big data and development created by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab and Overseas Development Institute. He has previously worked as a data for good research fellow at the Governance Lab at NYU, as well as with community nonprofits in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He graduated with a MPA from NYU and a BA with honors from Stanford University.
