Alexandre Amard - Digital Specialist

Alexandre Amard is a Digital Transformation Specialist in the World Bank's Global Digital Government and Services team, based in Washington, DC.

He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), with research on the governance and public value of e-government and digital identity systems in development contexts.

With 15 years of experience in digital transformation, public sector reform, and international development, he has led digital government and identity initiatives for EU institutions, national governments, and international donors.

Before joining the World Bank, Alexandre was a Senior Manager at PwC, where he led digital government and identity-related initiatives for EU institutions, national governments, and international donors, covering digital identity, data sharing, cybersecurity, and interoperability.

His work spans foundational ID technologies, digital public service delivery, and institutional reform. At the World Bank, he contributes to the Digital Public Infrastructure work program across Africa and Latin America.

A French, German, and Luxembourgish national, he is passionate about inclusive, user-centric digital public infrastructure and committed to knowledge sharing and operational impact.

Selected Research

PODDA, E., Hölzmer, P., AMARD, A., Schönrich-Sedlmeir, J., & Fridgen, G. (2025). The impact of zero-knowledge proofs on data minimisation compliance of digital identity wallets. Internet Policy Review, 14(3). doi:10.14763/2025.3.2019
AMARD, A. (2025). Delivering Human-Centered Digital Public Infrastructure - A Public Values and Governance Analysis of Digital Identities [Doctoral thesis, University of Luxembourg].
AMARD, A., Hölzmer, P., & Höß, A. (2024). Decentralized Digital Identities. In Decentralization Technologies. Financial Sector in Change (pp. 65-79). Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-66047-4_4
Weigl, L., Roth, T., AMARD, A., & Zavolokina, L. (2024). When public values and user-centricity in e-government collide - A systematic review. Government Information Quarterly. doi:10.1016/j.giq.2024.101956
AMARD, A., Hartwich, E., Höß, A., Rieger, A., Roth, T., & Fridgen, G. (2024). Designing Digital Identity Infrastructure: A Taxonomy of Strategic Governance Choices. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
AMARD, A., Delgado Fernandez, J., Barbereau, T. J., Fridgen, G., & Sedlmeir, J. (2023). Federated Learning in Migration Forecasting [Paper presentation]. ICIS 2023.
Weigl, L.*, AMARD, A.*, Fridgen, G., & Codagnone, C. (2022). The EU's Digital Identity Policy: Tracing Policy Punctuations. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV). doi:10.1145/3560107.3560121
Weigl, L., AMARD, A., Marxen, H., Roth, T., & Zavolokina, L. (2022). User-centricity and Public Values in eGovernment: Friend or Foe?. In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
AMARD, A., Höß, A., Roth, T., Fridgen, G., & Rieger, A. (2022). Guiding Refugees Through European Bureaucracy: Designing a Trustworthy Mobile App for Document Management. In DESRIST 2022 (pp. 171-182). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-06516-3_13