About Ania Calderon and Eduardo Bohórquez

As Executive Director of the Open Data Charter, Ania Calderon supports reformers from around the world to implement open data policies based on a shared set of principles. From 2012-2016, she delivered a key presidential mandate for open data in Mexico. Ania holds a MA degree in Public Administration from Columbia University, and was recently selected to the 2019 Assembly cohort for Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence by Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center and the MIT Media Lab. She is chair of the Board of Directors for Global Integrity. Eduardo Bohórquez is the Executive Director of Transparencia Mexicana, the national chapter of Transparency International in Mexico. He acted as spokesperson of a broad civic coalition that pushed for a major anti-corruption reform in 2016 through an open parliament scheme. Convinced that you do not have to choose from top-down or bottom-up anti-corruption strategies, he has been crafting “Desde la raíz” (By the roots) a social initiative to control corruption with concrete, measurable actions.