Updated April 29, 2013

If you are planning an Open Data event, an expert panel on the topic, looking for a conference speaker, or someone to interview for a news article, you might want to consider inviting some of the experts from this list.

If you know of people to add, please email me – tlauriau at gmail dot com.

Canada:

• Mary Beth Baker, Founding member of Open Data Ottawa, website
• Natalie Black, programmer for Nimonik.ca
• Ashley Casovan, Strategic Coordinator – Advisor to the CIO at  City of Edmonton, ashley dot casovan at edmonton dot ca
• Julia Evans, data scientist & programmer. About.
• Trish Garner, City of Toronto, Manager of Web Strategy, @trishgarner, Open Data Portal
• Tracey P. Lauriault, Founding member of CivicAccess.ca list, Datalibre.ca, blog & bio
• Heather Leson, Director of Community Engagement at Ushahidi, and see Textontechs, bio
• Hillary Little, UI and Design, bio
• Alison Loat, Samara, bio
• Ellie Marshall, Open North,  ellie at opennorth do  ca
• Diane Mercier, Open Data Advisor Ville de Montréal, Website
• Josee Plamondon, app developer Contratsnet, jplamondon at gmail doc com
• Gina Porcarelli, City of Toronto, Linkedin
• Catherine Roy, Citizen member of the City of Montreal Table de concertation, web consultant, BIO
• Laine Ruus, first data librarian in Canada, University of Toronto, Bio
• Sheyda Saneinejad, Engineer, Innovation Lab
• Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law, Blog, Bio
• Karen Smith, I School U of T, Bio
• Wendy Watkins, Founding member of the Data Liberation Initiative (paper), contact

International:

• Dana Bauer, Map Maker and Data Analyst, Speaker Profile
• Hadley Beeman, Blog, @hadleybeeman
• Francine Bennett, CEO and co-founder at Mastodon C (UK)
• Lucy Chambers, Head of Knowledge and Training , OKNF
• Lisa Crawl, Director, Common Crawl Foundation (US)
• Helen Darbishire, Access Info Europe, Bio
• Selena Deckelmann, Open source programmer, Bio also About
• Kaitlin Devine, Sunlight Foundation, Subsidyscope, Clearspending, Politwoops projects, OpenSpending, Bio, kdevine (at) sunlightfoundation (dot) com, (US)
• Shannon Dosemagen, Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
• Bernadette Hyland, W3C Government Linked Data Working Group chair
• Laura James, Co-Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, OKFN
• Jacqueline Kazil, Software Engineer, Speaker Profile
• Neelie Kroes, European Commission
• Naomi Lillie, Head of Network Unit, OKNF
• Irina Radchenko, Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics Moscow, Open data & Semantic Blog, Linked open data webinars, (Russia)
• Tiziana Refice, Google Research Scientist, contributing to the M-Lab Consortium, (US)
• Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation
• Sandra Moroco, World Bank, Article, @sandramoscoso
• Alison Rowland, Sunlight Foundation, Influence Explorer project, Bio, arowland (at) sunlightfoundation (dot) com, (US)
• Barbara Shaurette, Programmer
• Claudia Schwegmann, Founder of Open Aid, Blog, (OKNF Germany), @OpenAidGermany
• Jacqui Taylor, CEO and founder of Flying Binary
• Jeni Tennison, Technical Director of the Open Data Institute (UK)
• Meredith Whittaker, Program Manager, Google Research, Bio, contributing to the M-Lab Consortium, (US),