Amri Priyadi

Amri Priyadi is a 1st year student of interdisciplinary Master of Development Programme at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He holds a Sarjana Ilmu Sosial focuses on transnational society, cum laude, from Universitas Indonesia. Amri’s particular interest is in innovation and the use of technology for social and human development. He recently won the “Apps for Social Change” prize at the Geneva’s Innovation Summit 2013 for developing an urban disaster management mobile application prototype. Before his move to Geneva, Amri worked as Associate Director at the President’s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight (UKP4) in Indonesia and was one of the men responsible behind LAPOR! (Layanan Aspirasi dan Pengaduan Online Rakyat) – a platform of social media that enables a public-monitoring towards various development initiatives in Indonesia. Previously he worked as a Social Media Strategist for the United Nations Information Center (UNIC). He can be reached at amri.priyadi@graduateinstitute.ch.