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How do you use technology/policy to improve citizens’ lives? Tell us about your role or organisation. I am heading the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). ESCAP is part of the United Nations (UN) secretariat. We work with 58 Asia-Pacific countries and territories on their aspirations to improve peoples’ lives through the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the universal plan adopted by 193 countries in 2015 to achieve 17 ambitious Goals including eliminating poverty and hunger, cleaning our air, oceans and lan...

Public. i instituted a policy around requiring the agents who worked in my division, which is the first of its kind for a state agency, to wear body cameras. i created an initiative back when i was d.a., and this is when, by the way -- this is the '90s and the early 2000s, where you could talk to d.a.s around the country, and you'd mention the word re-entry, and they didn't know what you were talking about. this is when there was a tough on crime mentality, and i created one of the first in the nation initiatives that was focused on re-entering former offenders by getting them jobs and trainin...

Me -- saying mr. hosko the director would like to come down and visit the criminal investigative division. he came down with, you know, one support employee with him and walked the floors of my division, several hundred strong, meeting in small groups with people, apologizing to those who had been sitting out as unessential or non-essential, and just saying thank you for what you do. and he has done that on a regular basis, with sick agents, agents who have put great cases on the boards can get a call out of the blue from jim comey telling them what a great job they have done and what an asset...

Said, i saw a person of impeccable credentials, trustworthiness, smart as a whip, so experienced. i had said to many people when he was the nominee that the fbi is getting a rock star. and i fully believe that and when i came to work with him, you know, i saw the human being as well as this incredibly capable boss. you know, i've told others a store on when we had the government shutdown when i was assistant director. his secretary called me the first day that the non-essential employees were allowed to come back to work. and i got a call were the director's secretary asking me -- saying mr. h...

Far away from the middle of the procession? >> i didn't hear that. sorry. i think the mike is acting up a bit. >> oh, no. so what proximity will you have to the prince and princess? >> i think i will be quite a ways from it. my main job is to escort the sovereign and her carriage. the couple themselves will be a ways up in front from my division, escorted. >> it will be exciting nonetheless. thank you for joining me. >> you are very welcome. thank you very much. >> it is hard to do an interview when you are mounted on a horse. i understand. it's the first big royal wedding in decades history...