Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Noveck
Noveck in 2009
Born (1971-07-16) July 16, 1971 (age 53)
Toms River, New Jersey, U.S.
Alma mater
  • Harvard, A.B. 1991, A.M. 1992
  • University of Innsbruck, Ph.D. 1994
  • Yale Law School, J.D. 1997
Occupation(s)Professor, Northeastern University

Director, The Governance Lab and The Burnes Family Center for Global Impact

Chief Innovation Officer, The State of New Jersey

Beth Simone Noveck (born 1971) is a professor at Northeastern University and the 1st Chief AI Strategist for the State of New Jersey.[1][2] She previously served as founding Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey.[3][4] At Northeastern, she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The Governance Lab.[5] 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),[6] Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government (Harvard 2015),[7] Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings 2009),[8] and co-editor of the State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds (NYU 2006).[9]

She is also a Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University,[10] and a senior fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.[11] 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.[12]

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.[13] On May 16, 2011, she was appointed senior advisor for Open Government by UK Prime Minister David Cameron.[14] She is a commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.[15] On August 13, 2018, Noveck was appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to be the Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey.[16]

  1. ^ "New Jersey Appoints Beth Noveck as First Chief AI Strategist". GovTech. 2024-01-25. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  2. ^ cnihill (2024-01-31). "New Jersey names former White House adviser as innovation chief, appoints first chief AI strategist". StateScoop. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
  3. ^ "Gearing Up for the Future: New Jersey Gets its First Innovation Chief". NJ Spotlight. August 16, 2018.
  4. ^ "New Jersey Hires GovLab Founder as Its First Chief Innovation Officer". Government Technology. e.Republic. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Team". The GovLab website. The Governance Lab. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Solving Public Problems". solvingpublicproblems.org. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  7. ^ "Smart Citizens, Smarter State — Beth Simone Noveck". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  8. ^ Noveck, Beth Simone (November 2, 2010). "Wiki Government". Brookings. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  9. ^ "The State of Play". NYU Press. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
  10. ^ "Beth Simone Noveck Appointed Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow". EJB School of Planning and Public Policy website. Rutgers University. 2018-08-16. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Beth Noveck". Yale Law School Department Website. Yale University. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  12. ^ "The faces behind the Digital Council". Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. German Government. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  13. ^ Montalbano, Elizabeth. "White House Loses Open Government Leader". Information Week. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  14. ^ "Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, at Google Zeitgeist 2011". Speeches. UK Government. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  15. ^ "Homepage | Centre for International Governance Innovation". www.cigionline.org.
  16. ^ "Dr. Beth Simone Noveck | Office of Innovation, State of New Jersey". innovation.nj.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-29.