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Dakota Gruener serves as Executive Director of ID2020, a global public-private partnership that harnesses the collective power of nonprofits, corporations, and governments to promote the adoption and implementation of user-managed, privacy-protecting, and portable digital ID solutions. In this capacity, she leads strategy, builds critical partnerships with public and private-sector stakeholders, and continually focuses the organization on an ethics-first approach to digital ID.
Dakota launched the ID2020 Alliance following her work at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, where she served as an aide-de-camp to the CEO. Dakota graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in Providence, RI with dual degrees in Biology and Political Science. She is a former management consultant with Oliver Wyman, and a proud Californian.
<b>About ID2020</b>
ID2020 is a global public-private partnership that harnesses the collective power of nonprofits, corporations, and governments to promote the adoption and implementation of user-managed, privacy-protecting, and portable digital ID solutions.
By developing and applying rigorous technical standards to certify identity solutions, providing advisory services and implementing pilot programs, and advocating for the ethical implementation of digital ID, ID2020 is strengthening social and economic development globally. Alliance partners are committed to a future in which all of the world’s seven billion people can fully exercise their basic human rights, while ensuring data remains private and in the hands of the individual.
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