Maarja-Leena Saar is an openness advocate working to make E-stonian society inspiring and unleashing it’s hidden potential.

She is a process manager at the Estonian Cooperation Assembly, a competence centre founded by the President of Estonia, working on policy recommendations and initiatives on societal issues like (e-)democracy and public sector reform. Currently She is designing processes around the next Estonian Human Development Report, to be published in 2019 and focussing on democracy and public space.

She is also the project lead of rahvaalgatus.ee - citizen initiatives platform for sending collective proposals to the Estonian Parliament. Maarja-Leena is a big fan of open data and knowledge visualization, her passion in that field was recognized by New Europe 100 and Shuttleworth Foundation.