Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen is an EGOV Adviser at the United Nations University, Operating Unit for Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (www.egov.unu.edu), an international think tank on digital transformation of the public sector, in Portugal.He has a broad and in-depth insight into the potential and challenges of the digital transformation of the public sector and society at large. Including the innovative application of both technology, process and organizational re-engineering to increase service efficiency and user-friendliness, transparency and inclusiveness of public services, and user engagement in both continuous service improvement, service and policy design. To this comes tech stacks, standards and governance models.Morten’s currently responsible for project on multiple projects of digital transformation, including: * Strategy development China, Botswana, Georgia, Saudi Arabia and Tanzania.* Performance management and capacities in Uganda.* Service and eParticpation and portal redesign in Georgia and Saudi Arabia. With the International Social Security Association, Morten is leading the research on the impact of the digital transformation of social security, and how to improve the digital inclusion of marginalized communities. He is the contact point for both UNICEF and the WSIS Forum at UNU-EGOV and regularly works with the European Commission, ITU, OECD and World Bank.Morten regularly runs executive training programmes on digital transformation and is a guest lecturer at universities in Estonia, Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands and currently contributing to executive training related to digital transformation and anti-corruption in Egypt. He has been a jury member of the government awards programme on innovation and digital transformation in Sweden, Oman and the UAE.Past employment includes the Danish Agency for Digitisation (www.digst.dk), Danish Technological Institute (www.dti.dk), European Institute of Public Administration (www.eipa.eu), Centre for the Development of Enterprise, European Commission, and University of KwaZulu-Natal.Morten holds a ph.d. in Public Administration, Governance and Innovation from Tallinn University of Technology, a Masters in International Economic Management from the University of Birmingham and a Bachelor (Honours) in political science and economics from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. He is the author and co-author of various publications, a reviewer for GIQ, IJEG, PAIT Technology in Society and on the conference committees of the ICEGOV and IFIP-CeDEM eGovernment conference series.