Jeanne Holm

Jeanne Holm - Annual - WEF - 2018 - New Delhi - India

Jeanne Holm

Senior Technology Advisor to the Mayor, Assistant General Manager at City of Los Angeles

USA

As a leader in open data, education, community-building, and civic innovation, Jeanne Holm empowers people to discover new knowledge and collaborate to improve life on Earth and beyond. Jeanne is the Deputy CIO and Senior Technology Advisor to the Mayor for the City of Los Angeles, bringing technical innovations to 4 million people. Her work in Los Angeles focuses on delivering great city services like 311, public television, and social media, and public-private collaborations for technology innovations ranging from data science to broadband. She was formerly the Evangelist for open data for the White House, the leader for African open data for the World Bank, and the Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA. She is a Distinguished Instructor at UCLA, a Fellow of the United Nations International Academy of Astronautics. She directs two startups: In Unison, a charity that promotes peace and social justice through education and music, and Open Data Collaboratives, creating education programs for innovators throughout Africa.