João Sigora

João Sigora is a Senior Consultant in Demos at Helsinki’s Governance Innovation team. The core of his everyday work involves experimenting with new approaches to governance and building public servants’ capacity for reimagining and co-creating desired futures. Prior to Demos Helsinki, João accumulated several years of experience managing multi-stakeholder projects and advising senior officials in the public sector. Most recently, he was Coordinator of Innovation Projects at the Brazilian government’s pioneer innovation lab - GNova, engaging cross-government teams in projects combining design methodologies, behavioral sciences, digital Transformation and a range of innovation tools and methods to deliver better public services. João has been a visiting researcher at the e-Governance Academy in Tallinn, Estonia and holds a Master’s degree in public policy from the University of Oxford.