Edwin Lau is Head of the Reform of the Public Sector Division in the OECD Public Governance Directorate. His division helps countries improve the responsiveness of their governments and their relations with citizens and business through work on public sector innovation, digital government, open data, human resources management, and risk management. In particular, he oversees the Observatory for Public Sector Innovation (OPSI) and the statistical publication, Government at a Glance. A US national, he worked in the United States Office of Management and Budget in the 1990s. Prior to being named Head of Division at the OECD, Edwin was the Deputy Division Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures where he had responsibility for issues of budget transparency, performance budgeting, budgeting in the health sector, and reform of fiscal institutions. He established the Public Governance Review Programme in 2007, and worked closely with the Irish Prime Minister’s Office, the Estonian Government Office (Chancellery), and the Finnish Ministry of Finance to deliver advice on public sector modernisation to those countries. He also established and led the OECD’s project on e-government from 2000-2007. Edwin holds a Master's degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a diplôme d'études approfondies from Science Po in Paris.