Policy & advisory
Each entry states exactly what the relationship is. An advisory seat is an advisory seat; it is not employment at the institution, and it is not an endorsement by it.
Advisory
Both are documented by the institution concerned.
Expert advisory groupCurrent
Office of Strategy and Evidence
Expert advisory group member, Good governance of children's data
One of around twenty members advising the second phase of UNICEF Innocenti's children's data governance project, which covers data governance in education technology, a fair data economy for children, and innovations in data governance.
AdvisorCurrent
Advisor, Research Advisory Council
Research Advisory Council member, advising on learning ecosystems and public-interest technology.
Contributions
The role shown against each item is the one the document itself supports, author, writing team or contributor. Being named in an acknowledgement is not authorship, and is not presented as such.
2026
Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, European Commission
A deep-dive for the European Commission's skills platform on where clinical AI is genuinely useful, and what assurance regulated care requires of it.
PolicyAuthor
2025
UNICEF Innocenti, Office of Strategy and Evidence
Argues that governments can use sensitive education data without centralising it, and what governance that requires.
PolicyAuthor
2023
Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development
Broadband Commission working-group report on the governance of education data, written by the UNESCO team supporting the group.
ReportsWriting team
2022
Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development
Preliminary findings of the working group. Roy was on the UNESCO writing team for this edition too.
ReportsWriting team
2019
UNESCO MGIEP
How a learning platform used machine learning to connect knowledge across a UNESCO institute's work.
ReportsAuthor
Institutional experience
Seven years across two UNESCO offices, ending in September 2025. Titles are those used by UNESCO in each period.
2021-2025
Senior Project Officer, Section for Teacher Development
UNESCO · Paris, France
Teacher development, digital learning platforms and the data governance of education systems.
2018-2020
Chief Technology Officer
UNESCO MGIEP, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development · New Delhi, India
Learning platform architecture, including machine-learning-supported knowledge sharing and socio-emotional learning.