Aneesh Chopra

Aneesh Chopra is the co-founder of Hunch Analytics, an open data and analytics company serving the healthcare and education sectors. Chopra was appointed as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer by President Obama in 2009. In this role, he was charged with promoting innovation to address urgent national priorities. In 2012 he left the White House and ran for lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2013. Chopra is the author of Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government. At the Shorenstein Center, he was periodically in residence and worked in partnership with Nick Sinai to drive an ambitious program on data as public infrastructure.