Piret Tõnurist

Dr. Piret Tõnurist is a senior programme manager at the OECD, Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) and leads the work on government innovation leading the work on country studies and capacity building. She established OPSI’s work on systems thinking, anticipatory innovation and is the co-founder of the cross-directorate Mission Action Lab at the OECD. The Mission Action Lab advises countries on how to most effectively solve complex challenges in a targeted and time-bound way. Piret holds a research fellowship at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, TalTech and she conducts research on a variety of topics such machine learning and AI, technology governance and innovation policy management. She has previously advised the Parliament of Estonia and worked as a performance auditor for the State Audit Office in the field of innovation and entrepreneurial policy. Piret holds a PhD and MA from TalTech in technology governance and MSc from KU Leuven in policy evaluation. She can be found on Twitter at @PiretTonurist.