Pyrou directs the East West Management Institute’s programs on human rights and environmental justice in Southeast Asia under the Open Development Initiative, with over 20 years of experience in the development sector across Asia, Africa and Australia. Her work intersects with the open data movement to utilize data and information in an open data platform ODM recently, registered in Thailand as the Knowledge for Development Foundation (K4D). The institute seeks to uphold values to promote evidence‐based decision making using technology that is gender inclusive and respectful of indigenous data sovereignty.