Victoria Alsina is Research Professor in the Department of Technology, Culture and Society at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Senior Fellow at The Governance Lab, where she coordinates the CrowdLaw Initiative leading research on the practice of using technology to open parliaments, governments, and public institutions to collective intelligence at each stage of the law and policymaking cycle to improve the quality, effectiveness and legitimacy of the resulting laws and policies. She is also Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School and advises numerous governments, organizations and private institutions on issues related to public sector reform, public-private collaboration and democratic innovation. She holds a BA in Political Science and Public Administration from Universitat Pompeu Fabra; an MPA from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra; an MA in Public Management from ESADE Business School; and a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from Universitat Pompeu Fabra.