Executive Director & Co-founder
Gaurav Godhwani is co-founder and executive director at CivicDataLab - a research lab harnessing data, tech, design and social science to strengthen access to information and enhance civic engagements in India & other countries. He works to leverage the open-source movement to enable citizens to engage better in public reforms. He has been instrumental in starting data for public good initiatives in India like - DataKind Bangalore, Open Budgets India, Justice Hub & Open Contracting India. Currently, he is focused to grow open data led innovations in sectors like Climate Action, Disaster Risk Reduction, Public Finance, Public Procurement, Law & Justice, Urban Planning and more.