C.J. Krizan

C.J. Krizan is the Chief Data Officer (CDO) at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). In that role, he provides oversight and leadership for the DOL’s efforts to develop, maintain, share and utilize data to best support DOL’s mission. He leads the DOL Data Board, a departmental work group charged with improving the Department’s capacity to leverage data as a strategic asset, developing and guiding data strategy, management, and policy, as well as data governance, stewardship, architecture, and use. The CDO is responsible for data governance and lifecycle data management, supporting the Department in meeting the requirements of the Federal Data Strategy and Open Government Data Act.

Prior to this role, Krizan served for five years as a supervisory economist at the DOL and before that was a senior economist at the U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies.  He was an assistant professor of economics at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain. He began his career as an economist at Fannie Mae.

Krizan holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Gordon College.