JEREMY MILLARD

Jeremy is Director of the consultancy Third Millennium Governance, as well as having senior research positions at the Danish Technological Institute in Denmark and Bradford University in the UK. He has over forty years’ global experience on issues ranging from governance, ICT, open and social innovation, participation, sustainable and socio-economic development, tackling poverty and exclusion, the new economy, urbanization and nature-based solutions for growth, and has published extensive in these and related fields. His many clients include governments, the European Commission, United Nations, OECD and World Bank, as well as many non-profits and companies around the world. Recent assignments in the area of e-government include on-going support to both the United Nations regarding their biennial eGovernment Survey, and the European Commission regarding e-government research and innovation, as well as a survey on back-office developments in support of user-centred e-government strategies for the OECD. He has also worked with the UN on ICT and governance issues for the 2030 sustainable development agenda, and with ESCWA on open government, e-participation and integrated service delivery across the Arab Region. In addition, he recently developed open government and e-participation road maps for Western Balkan countries for ReSPA, advised the Georgian government on their e-Georgia strategy, and co-authoring a knowledge societies policy handbook for UNESCO.
He works with clients to develop new business and social innovation models of change at organizational, spatial and societal levels. His aim is to get the most out of technology for people and to ensure that benefits are widely spread to maximise smart, sustainable and inclusive growth providing prosperity and welfare for all through open governance institutions and processes.