Megan Roberts is the Positioning and Engagement Manager in the Digital, AI, and Innovation Hub of the United Nations Development Programme. She previously served as the director of policy planning at the United Nations Foundation, where she led its policy work on the future of multilateral cooperation and digital and emerging technologies. While at UNF she was also an associate technology policy fellow with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where her research focused on the growing gap between advances in digital technologies and multilateral policy responses.
Roberts has also held positions with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she served as interim managing director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative, and the Council on Foreign Relations, where she was the Associate Director for the International Institutions and Global Governance program.
She has managed technical election assistance programs in Southeast Asia for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and headed up the flagship publication on global peace operations from New York University’s Center on International Cooperation.
Roberts holds a master’s degree in global affairs from New York University and undergraduate degrees in finance and political science from Rutgers University. She is a Council on Foreign Relations term member.