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David Jensen

David Jensen

UNEP Regional Coordinator — Digital Transformation (Europe & North America)

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Geneva, Switzerland
Joined October 2025
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Leader in building digital environmental infrastructure: David designs and drives platforms and partnerships that bring environmental data into decision-making — co-founding or helping scale MapX, the UN Biodiversity Lab, STRATA and other UNEP digital platforms — and he plays a leading role in UNEP's Global Environmental Data Strategy and the CODES coalition. unep+2
Experienced environmental peacebuilding and crisis-response practitioner: he led UNEP's Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding work, authored flagship policy reports on natural resources and peacebuilding, and has advised UN peace and security bodies and country teams on environmental dimensions of conflict and recovery. genevaenvironmentnetwork+1
Policy convenor and multistakeholder strategist: Jensen combines technical/platform experience with policy leadership, serving as UNEP's focal point in cross-UN coalitions (CODES), contributing to WSIS/UNCTAD inputs, and helping shape the Global Environmental Data Strategy to connect environmental data ecosystems to broader digital public infrastructure. unctad+2

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UNEP submission / inputs on WSIS / Digital Public Infrastructure and related UNEP knowledge products

January 1, 2024

Contributed as UNEP respondent and author to inter-agency and UN fora documents on digital public infrastructure, environmental data strategy (GEDS) and WSIS reporting (example: UNEP submission to WSIS/ CSTD and related UNEP reports).

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The Case for a Digital Ecosystem for the Environment

January 1, 2019

Discussion paper arguing for a federated digital ecosystem that combines environmental data, algorithms and insights to accelerate sustainable development and evidence-based environmental policy.

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