Title proposal: Building open performance (and data) into the fabric of government.

Biography: Jeff has for years been a high-profile expert in global Open Data and public sector innovation.  Mostly recently, he has served as Director of Multilateral & Non-Profits at Socrata, a data technology company focused on the public sector.  Prior to Socrata, Jeff was a Senior ICT Advisor with the World Bank leading groundbreaking Open Data and open innovation work with countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe – and notably was one of the two co-creators of the widely used Open Data Readiness Assessment tool of the World Bank.  Jeff received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. at Harvard Law School.