Taylor oversees partnerships and strategy as CEO at Open Function Group and is responsible for the long-term sustainability of the solutions we provide—strengthening digital public goods and DPI while delivering more efficient and effective health & humanitarian services in under-resourced settings.

He is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social & Economic Equity. He received the first annual Harvard SECON Social Impact Award and the 2017 Pizzigati Prize for Software Development in the Public Interest. He was named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 list, is a 2012 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2014 Rainer Arnhold Fellow, and a 2015 PopTech Fellow. He serves as an advisor to the Technical Committee for the ITU/GIZ/DIAL-lead GovStack initiative, accelerating the digital transformation of government services through the adoption of digital public goods.

Before starting OpenFn, he co-founded Vera Solutions and served as CEO for its first 4 years. Vera is a leader in the ICT4D space, an impact-first technology company with more than 100 employees and 300 implementations in 40+ countries. Before Vera, he lived and worked in a dozen countries in Africa while focusing on curriculum and M&E at a major public-health implementer and consulting on intervention design, training, and monitoring & evaluation with more than a dozen NGOs around Africa and Asia. He holds an MSc in inequalities and social sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a focus on technology policy and a BA in religious studies with a focus on Tibetan Buddhism from Amherst College. You can follow him on twitter @taylordowns2000.