Jeanne Holm is the Chair of the Claremont Graduate University Board of Trustees and the former Deputy Mayor for Finance and Innovation for the City of Los Angeles.
Holm has deep experience in government and higher education, as well as significant expertise in data technology and civic innovation. During her nearly eight years as Deputy Mayor for Finance and Innovation for the City of Los Angeles, she delivered the most progressive budget in city history and worked to ensure equity in services and procurements. She also oversaw the mayor’s budgeting and performance management processes, personnel, sustainability, and data management.
Serving in the Obama White House, Holm was the Evangelist for Open Data and the architect of Data.gov, which strives to inform decisions, drive innovation and economic activity, and strengthen an open and transparent government. At NASA for 30 years, she led teams building innovative technologies to share knowledge.
As a longtime distinguished instructor at UCLA, she has developed and taught courses in big data, civic innovation, open government, semantic technologies, knowledge management, and information sciences.