Building Consensus and Open Parliaments (Maria Baron & Lotte Geunis)

In this episode of Open Gov Stories, Lotte talks about loving travel from an early age, which led her to an international career and working on improving parliaments. Maria talks about studying journalism in Argentina, and they both discuss the importance of building consensus for effective collective action. María Baron is an Argentine journalist and global executive director of Directorio Legislativo, an organization that promotes transparency in government, democratic consolidation, and enhanced access to public information throughout Latin America. She is also founding chair of the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency. Lotte Geunis is a Program Officer at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and is based in Brussels. She leads OGP’s parliamentary engagement and supports OGP's public service delivery work across the Partnership.