David Sangokoya is Head of Civil Society and Responsible Governance at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, where he leads the Forum’s engagement and inclusion of nonprofits, marginalized communities, labor unions, activists, religious and faith-based organizations, indigenous leaders, and social movements across its Centres and multi-stakeholder initiatives. He drives the Forum’s stakeholder inclusion agenda and oversees more than 120 civil society partnerships spanning climate and nature action, industry transformation, social justice and inclusive economies, technology, and geopolitics. He additionally oversees the Global Future Councils on Human Rights, Social Cohesion, and Just Transition, and co-founded the Forum’s internal Black and LGBTQI+ employee resource groups.
David serves on the board of WINGS, a network of more than 170 philanthropy support organizations across 57 countries. Prior to the Forum, he was 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 also worked as a data for good research fellow at the Governance Lab at NYU and with community nonprofits in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. He holds an MPA from NYU and a BA with honors from Stanford University.
