Christina Goodness

Christina Goodness is a public-interest technologist who has spent more than twenty years building and governing technology at the United Nations after earlier life in Silicon Alley start-ups. She serves as Special Assistant and Head of the Front Office to the United Nations Chief Information Technology Officer in the Office of Information and Communications Technology, supporting cross pillar change, reform and Member State engagement after 18 years in peacekeeping helping draft the UN Data Strategy, steering cross-agency consensus toward a federated, connected architecture and human-centric design, and co-conceiving the Peace and Security Data Hub (psdata.un.org). A former Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program teaching on technology, open source, and social change, and a TEDx speaker, she is originally from Maui, Hawai'i.