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Javiera Godoy

Programme Manager, Global Development Initiative

Javiera is a Programme Manager with the Global Development Initiative at the Centre for Public Impact.

She joined the CPI team in 2022.

Javiera Godoy is a systems strategist focused on collaborative governance, democratic innovation, and public sector learning. At the Centre for Public Impact, she leads regional and global work helping governments and communities reimagine governance through experimentation, equity, and trust-building. She anchors CPI’s Collective “Innovation for Democracy in Latin America” working group, convening changemakers to connect innovations, strengthen participation and representation, and shape regional resilience.

With over a decade of experience across Latin America and beyond, Javiera has led and supported high-impact programmes in participatory governance, policy design, digital innovation, and systems transformation. She managed Latin American portfolios of cities for Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Global Mayors Challenge and UNDP’s Systems Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation global initiative. As UK Lead, she co-designed and delivered the Co-Design Your Place international training programme (Erasmus+ EU) on place-based innovation delivered in Poland, Denmark and the UK.

Javiera holds a Master of Arts in Graphic Communication Design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, and an architecture degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is an Associate Fellow (AFHEA) of Advance HE. Additionally, Javiera has pursued further certifications in innovative governance of large urban systems from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, futures thinking from the Institute for the Future, and user experience principles from the University of Michigan.

Her academic contributions include serving as a Responsible Design Lecturer at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UAL), and she continues to teach as a Visiting Lecturer at UAL and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Javiera is passionate about connecting and orchestrating systems, from communities to nature, and reimagining how we live, adapt, decide, and care for one another. Outside of work, she enjoys slow city walks inspired by the concept of the flâneuse, observing everyday life through a lens, and finding small moments of connection in unexpected places.

Some of Javiera’s work includes:

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