Cristian Duda is the Lead for Digital Identity within the World Economic Forum’s Digital Economy Platform. The goal is to support good digital ID approaches across the world where people control their data, while public and private sectors collaborate to provide broad access to services.

At the Forum Cristian builds communities of governments, private sector and civil society players to highlight global identity challenges and replicable solutions. For instance, Cristian makes the case for change towards ID ecosystems in strategic papers such as “Reimagining Digital Identity: A Strategic Imperative”.

Cristian holds a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich and has a background of management consulting in pharma, health and digital topics. He is passionate about innovation solving world issues.