Sharone April

Leads the governmental task force for digital transformation in local government, an inter-ministerial team from the Ministry of Interior, and the National Digital Initiative. Previously as the chief digital officer in the Ministry of Interior, Sharone was responsible for the digital transformation of the ministry vis-à-vis local government and for improving the service provided by the central government to the local authorities. Between 2015-2018 she managed the Jerusalem innovation team by Bloomberg Philanthropies. This senior advisory team worked with the mayor and city executive management on strategic urban challenges. Beginning in 2010, Sharone worked as a senior strategic organizational consultant at Points9, a subsidiary of Lotem Strategies Group, and ran the public sector division of the company. Between 2004-2009, she lead the private client unit at Deltathree, a VoIP company, where she ran customer service, support, and sales teams in Israel and India. She holds a BA in Business Administration and Psychology, an MA in Organizational Sociology and has completed her doctorate on the topic of urban collaborative innovation in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University in 2020