Ivy Ong

Ivy is a development professional with sixteen years of experience. She brings a thoughtful and grounded point of view in implementing open data and digital governance programmes, access to information and enhancing public participation, as well as facilitating multi-stakeholder engagement to drive change. Prior to joining the International Fund, she was the Regional Lead for Asia and the Pacific at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) where she supported government and civil society reformers in Afghanistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Indonesia, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, and Sri Lanka in the co-development and implementation of open government reforms. These reforms were focused on transparency of government-held data, leveraging technology to strengthen public participation and access to information, and anti-corruption.

Ivy has held a range of roles tackling open data, civic space, social innovation work as a former Lab Director at the World Wide Web Foundation's Open Data Lab Jakarta, Program Director at the French innovation firm Five by Five, and Director and Outreach Lead at the Philippine government's Department of Budget and Management Office of the Chief Information Officer. She enjoys bringing different people together, navigating tricky bureaucracies, and brokering unusual connections so that various stakeholders can 'co-operate their respective levers' and work towards their shared goals. Her interests include policy innovation and experimentation, information intermediaries, systems leadership, and multi-stakeholder partnerships.