Lori Wade

Lori Wade, the Intelligence Community (IC) Chief Data Officer within the Office of the Director or National Intelligence (ODNI), is focused first on achieving interoperability of IC data at speed and scale. She is accelerating the adoption of full lifecycle enterprise data services and establishing the foundation of a data-centric ecosystem that promotes the use of modern, machine-enabled analytics. She is also leading the end-to-end data management planning for the collection and acquisition of data. Finally, she is advancing data literacy throughout the IC, raising the data acumen and data tradecraft of the entire IC workforce. During her two decades in public-service roles at NCTC, CIA, and ODNI, she has developed executive leadership experience, expertise, and mission experience for leading the IC’s efforts to solve data challenges, drive change, and deliver mission impact.