Please meet Lindsay Lee, our Woman in tech of the Week. She is a Technical Officer at WHO and works on issues related to people with disabilities. She warns that during COVID-19 pandemic, discrimination against people with disabilities could increase.

Lindsay Lee is a statistician and public policy researcher from Tennessee, US. She completed her Bachelor in Mathematics at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She then completed her Master of Science in Applied Statistics and Master of Public Policy at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She has predominantly worked in disability advocacy and data analysis in the social sciences.

Lindsay joined the World Health Organization (WHO) Blindness and Deafness Prevention, Disability and Rehabilitation team as a Technical Officer in January 2017. She supports the team primarily with analysis and reporting of the results from the Model Disability Survey, as a part of the implementation of the WHO global disability action plan 2014-2021.

In the following Q&A she shares awareness related to difficulties people with disabilities may encounter in the context of COVID-19 and how their needs can be met. 

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Corinne Vigreux is a Co-Founder of TomTom, the navigation technologies company that continues to create cutting edge innovations that solve mobility problems and address the challenges of autonomous driving and smart cities.

As one of the top fifty most inspirational women in European tech, Corinne champions women in the workforce and passionately advocates for improved social mobility through education. She launched the new tuition free Coding College in Amsterdam, CODAM, based on the pioneering work of Ecole 42 in Paris.
She is a member of the supervisory board of takeaway.com NV and Groupe ILIAD, member of the supervisory board of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet and advisor to the Amsterdam Economic Board. Corinne was made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2012 and Officer in the Royal Order of Orange-Nassau in 2016.