Although chief data or digital officers have played a vital role in private enterprise since the 1980s, government took much longer to embrace this role. Today, agency CDOs serve a pivotal role balancing the challenges of bringing legacy data and systems into the present while also implementing a pathway of seamless data management in the future.
For WashingtonExec’s Inaugural Top Government Chief Data Officers to Watch in 2022 list, we identified the best of the best based on their accomplishments, expertise and vision for bringing their agencies into the future to better serve constituents in a post-pandemic world.