Ashton Baldwin Carter was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science &International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
The Robert and Renée Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs,also known as the Belfer Center,is a research center located within the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University,in the United States. From 2017 until his death in October 2022,the center was led by Director Ash Carter,former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Co-Director Eric Rosenbach,former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense. Its current executive director is Natalie Colbert.
Vivek Kundra is a former American administrator who served as the first chief information officer of the United States from March,2009 to August,2011 under President Barack Obama. He is currently the chief operating officer at Sprinklr,a provider of enterprise customer experience management software based in NYC. He was previously a visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
Melissa Hathaway is a leading expert in cyberspace policy and cybersecurity. She served under two U.S. presidential administrations from 2007 to 2009,including more than 8 months at the White House,spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama after leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W. Bush. She is President of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC,a Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Regents at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies,a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada,and a non-resident Research Fellow at the Kosciuszko Institute in Poland. She was previously a Senior Adviser at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center.
Susan P. Crawford is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She served as President Barack Obama's Special Assistant for Science,Technology,and Innovation Policy (2009) and is a columnist for WIRED. She is a former Board Member of ICANN,the founder of OneWebDay,and a legal scholar. Her research focuses on telecommunications and information law.
Aneesh Paul Chopra is an American executive who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama and was at the White House through 2012. Chopra previously served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology under Governor Tim Kaine. Chopra was a candidate in 2013 for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He is the author of Innovative State:How New Technologies Can Transform Government (2014) and co-founder and president of CareJourney. In 2015 he joined Albright Stonebridge Group as a senior advisor.
The United States Chief Technology Officer is an official in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The U.S. CTO helps the President and their team harness the power of data,innovation and technology on behalf of the American people. The CTO works closely with others both across and outside government on a broad range of work including utilizing technology to improve the government and its services,while supporting national interests through the promotion of technological innovation. Specifically,the CTO uses applied technology to help create jobs,create paths to improve government services with lower costs,higher quality and increased transparency,help upgrade agencies to use open data and expand their data science capabilities,improve quality and reduce the costs of health care and criminal justice,increase access to broadband,bring technical talent into government for policy and modern operations input,improve community innovation engagement by agencies working on local challenges,and help keep the nation secure.
Beth Simone Noveck is New Jersey's first chief innovation officer,at Northeastern University where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change,the Governance Lab and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is also affiliated faculty with the Institute for Experiential AI. She is the author of Solving Public Problems:How to Fix our Government and Change Our World,Smart Citizens,Smarter State:The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government,Wiki Government:How Technology Can Make Government Better,Democracy Stronger,and Citizens More Powerful,and co-editor of the State of Play:Law and Virtual Worlds.
John Paul Holdren is an American scientist who served as the senior advisor to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as assistant to the president for science and technology,director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,and co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators from the private sector,non-profits,and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in months,not years. It was established in 2012 and has operated continuously since then. The program focuses on generating measurable results,using innovation techniques from private industry such as Lean Startup,Design Thinking,and Agile Development.
Latanya Arvette Sweeney is an American computer scientist. She is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She is the founder and director of the Public Interest Tech Lab,founded in 2021 with a $3 million grant from the Ford Foundation as well as the Data Privacy Lab. She is the current Faculty Dean in Currier House at Harvard.
The Shorenstein Center on Media,Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center that explores the intersection and impact of media,politics and public policy in theory and practice.
Open data in the United States refers to the Federal government of the United States' perspectives,policies,and practices regarding open data.
Matthew Bunn is an American nuclear and energy policy analyst,currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the Co-principal Investigator for the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom.
Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall is an American national security and energy leader,public servant,educator,and author currently serving as the 11th United States Homeland Security Advisor to President Joe Biden since 2021. She previously served in the Clinton and Obama Administrations and held appointments at academic institutions and think tanks.
ConnectEd is a United States Federal Government Initiative that aims to increase internet connectivity and technology in all public schools to enhance learning. The ConnectEd initiative is funded through Title IV Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA),which designates specific monies for the effective use of technology in schools. The 2016 National Education Technology Plan aligns with ConnectEd as a published action plan to meet these goals of technology integration and connectivity.
Alvand "Alvin" Salehi is an American tech entrepreneur,attorney and angel investor. He is the co-founder of Shef,Code.gov and a former White House technology advisor under President Obama.
Kathy Pham is a Vietnamese American computer scientist and product management executive. She has held roles in leadership,engineering,product management,and data science at Google,IBM,the Georgia Tech Research Institute,Harris Healthcare,and served as a founding product and engineering member of the United States Digital Service (USDS) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States at The White House. Pham was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Product and Engineering at the Federal Trade Commission,and the inaugural Executive Director of the National AI Advisory Committee.
Joan Donovan is an American social science researcher and assistant professor at the College of Communication,Boston University. She was previously a researcher and lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University,an affiliate at Data and Society,and was research director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media,Politics and Public Policy.
Mina Hsiang is an engineer and product executive. She is the third administrator of the United States Digital Service in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Hsiang was on the original rescue team for Healthcare.gov.
