Pedro Parraguez Ruiz

Researcher & technology entrepreneur

Research, networks and practical decision support.

I’m Pedro Parraguez Ruiz. I study how people, organisations and capabilities connect, and develop tools that help make sense of those connections.

My work brings together network science, organisational analysis and data-intensive methods. It spans academic research, public policy, industrial collaboration and the practical challenges of turning evidence into decisions.

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Pedro Parraguez Ruiz
Pedro Parraguez Ruiz, PhDCopenhagen, Denmark

What connects my work

Networks & capabilities

Understanding how activities, organisations and resources fit together—from information flows in complex projects to capabilities and dependencies across industries.

Data & decision support

Connecting fragmented evidence through knowledge graphs, network analysis and AI, while making sources, assumptions and uncertainty open to examination.

Learning & implementation

Working with the people who will use the analysis. Teaching, workshops and careful handover are part of making a system useful in practice.

I co-founded Dataverz in 2018 and lead its work on research-based data infrastructure and decision support. Since 2025, I have also led the Nordic Procurement Labs initiative, connecting procurement data with questions of industrial capability and supply resilience.

Papers & reports

A few tangible results: original first pages from research publications and applied work.

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Selected work

All projects
2024–2026Platform & technology transfer

Connecting evidence for public policy

Chile’s Ministry of Science · Inter-American Development Bank

I led the design and delivery of knowledge-graph and AI workflows linking research projects, publications, grants, organisations, researchers and policy themes.

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2025–presentOngoing initiative
Nordic Supplier Discovery Tool — public interface image from Dataverz.
Nordic Supplier Discovery Tool — public interface image from Dataverz.

Procurement & industrial resilience

Nordic Procurement Labs · Dataverz / Pattrnz

I lead work connecting procurement signals with supplier capabilities, dependencies and industrial resilience. The portfolio includes the Nordic Supplier Discovery Tool, an alpha-stage Horizon Scanner, and the Nordic Defence Capability Report, which I co-authored with Nelson Guaman, Alfred Birkegaard and colleagues from partner organisations.

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2021–2022Completed project
PASI — project-network figure from UNDP’s public report, Collective intelligence in action (2022), p. 7.
PASI — project-network figure from UNDP’s public report, Collective intelligence in action (2022), p. 7.

Portfolio analytics for strategic insight

UNDP Regional Innovation Centre & UNDP Philippines · Dataverz

I co-designed and led the knowledge-graph, language-processing and network-analysis work in Portfolio Analytics for Strategic Insights (PASI). It connected Open UNDP data with project documents to support portfolio sensemaking.

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Tools in practice

Public tools, partner prototypes and historical demonstrations. Each record identifies its access or project context.

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Medium articles

Writing on AI, procurement and capability mapping. The original articles are in English.

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Demonstrations & talks

Recordings from the original archive, alongside invited talks and conference presentations. Original media include English and Spanish.

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Research

From engineering projects to resilient supply networks

My research began with engineering design as a networked social process. Today, I am interested in how organisations can understand dependencies, find alternative capabilities and make better-informed choices about resilience and change.

Research & publications

Teaching

Connecting theory, evidence and practice

My teaching experience includes course leadership and student supervision at DTU, university teaching in Chile, and professional learning with public agencies and international organisations.

Teaching