Biographies

Liv spearheaded the creation and launch of the Digital Public Goods Alliance in 2019 and served as its co-lead from 2020-2023. In her role, she leverages 15 years of experience with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) where she worked on country capacity building and as an advisor to the Director General, before leading several digital innovation projects built around open-source technologies. Previous to starting in Norad, Liv lived for two years in the country of Timor-Leste, where she did field research and worked as an advisor on good governance and human resource development to the Timorese public petroleum sector administration. Liv is a passionate amateur choir singer with a (not so secret) love for group-karaoke.