Elsa Estevez is the chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Knowledge Societies and Digital Governance at Universidad Nacional del Sur, an Independent Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), and a Full Professor at the National University of La Plata, all in Argentina. She is also a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) on matters of digital government, particularly in Latin America, and an invited professor at the Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. Previously, she was a Senior Academic Program Officer and Academic Program Officer at the United Nations University (UNU) in Macao and Portugal; Visiting Professor at the National University of Rio Negro, Argentina; Visiting Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal; and head of Information Technology (IT) departments in large financial and pharmaceutical organizations in Argentina. Her research interests cover digital government, digital transformation of government-citizen relationships, and the impact of such transformation on the nations' and cities' capacity to pursue sustainable development. She conducts research, teaches students and managers, and consults for government and international organizations about digital government and knowledge societies. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Universidad Nacional del Sur.