Zoran Jordanoski is a Senior Research Analyst at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2018.
Zoran Jordanoski is a senior academic fellow at UNU-EGOV, where he focuses on digital transformation and emerging technologies within the public sector, e-government and sustainable development, e-governance planning and design, e-governance monitoring and assessment, including benchmarks for the UN EGDI, EU DESI, World Bank Ease of Doing Business, and Transparency International’s Corruption Perception.
His areas of research and expertise include international law, policy, the legal and regulatory aspects of digital transformation, ID management, personal data protection, open data, digital participation and public procurements.
He has been a member of various expert working groups responsible for developing and implementing several projects related to e-governance, regulatory reforms, administrative burden reduction and digitisation.
Zoran regularly works on cross-case comparisons, best practice analysis, and strategy development (incl. implementation and ex-ante - ex post-assessment). He has worked on a number of international assignments, including the DGA Research Project, with excellent insight into the Saudi and regional context. Zoran is currently working on a number of projects, including an ICT capacity development strategy and action plan for the National Technology Authority - Uganda, plus a comparative performance management and indicator development of the digital transformation of the Western Balkan countries, Australia, Denmark and the Republic of Korea. As a lawyer, Zoran regularly works with legal and regulatory issues such as personal data protection, once-only principles and security issues.
Previously, he was the Head of Unit for International Relations within the Directorate for Personal Data Protection of North Macedonia, and a member of several Intergovernmental expert groups. He has more than ten years of professional experience within the Macedonian public administration, as well as practice as a government fellow in the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic.
He holds a Ph.D. in International Law and an LL.M in International Law and International Relations, both from the University of Ss Cyril and Methodius in Skopje (North Macedonia).