Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck (born 1971) is a Professor at Northeastern University and the 1st Chief AI Strategist for the State of New Jersey. She previously served as founding Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey. At [https://provost.northeastern.edu/leadership/beth-noveck/ Northeastern], she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The Governance Lab. 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'' (Yale Press 2021), ''Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government'' (Harvard 2015), ''Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better'', ''Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful'' (Brookings 2009), and co-editor of the ''State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds'' (NYU 2006).

She is also a Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, and a senior fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. She also served as one of nine members of the Digitalrat, a council to advise German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues concerning the digital transformation of society.

From 2009 to 2011, she was the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and led President Obama's Open Government Initiative. She also served on the Obama-Biden Transition Team. She was based at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and served as an expert on governance, technology and institutional innovation. On May 16, 2011, she was appointed senior advisor for Open Government by UK Prime Minister David Cameron. She is a commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance. On August 13, 2018, Noveck was appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to be the Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey. Provided by Wikipedia