Ana Brandusescu

Ana is a Research and Policy Officer at the Web Foundation. She drives a more inclusive use of data to enhance digital rights and gender equity through various data, research and policy projects. These include Women’s Rights Online and the Open Data Barometer. She also works on open contracting and governance, and artificial intelligence. She has eight years of research experience in data analysis, data standards, open source applications, and participatory projects. Her work has included global advocacy, research evidence and mapping, policy, and strategic partnerships in open data for agriculture and nutrition, participatory mapping in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, crowdmapping and community development in Canada, geovisualizing trauma injuries in South Africa, and representing informal communities with free and open source software tools in India.
She previously worked for the Web Foundation in the development of pioneering the Open Contracting Data Standard with the World Bank. Ana obtained a graduate degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.