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Opening Address: Public sector innovation capacity: what influences public officials’ ability to learn, innovate and adapt to change?

May 2025

Dr. Piret Tõnurist is a senior programme manager at the OECD, Observatory of Public Sector Innovation (OPSI), GOV/INDIGO. She leads OECD’s work on government innovation and is the co-founder of the cross-directorate Mission Action Lab. In previous years she managed OPSI’s work programme on systems thinking and created the work stream on anticipatory governance. Piret holds a research fellowship at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, TalTech and she conducts research on a variety of topics such as AI governance, machine-to-machine coordination and innovation policy management. She has previously advised the Parliament of Estonia on constitutional reforms and worked as a performance auditor for the State Audit Office. Piret has also extensive experience consulting both private companies, public organisations and innovation labs. Piret holds a PhD and MA from TalTech in technology governance and MSc from KU Leuven in policy evaluation.