Ramona Carey

Ramona Carey is the Mission Area Chief Data Officer for the U.S. Forest Service with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She joined the Forest Service in 2020 as the Assistant CDO. According to an Forest Service blog post, Carey’s vision is for “Forest Service data to be discoverable, accessible, useable, valuable and secure for all who need it.”

Carey came to the Forest Service from the DHS Office of the Inspector General, where she was Chief of Intelligence Analysis for four years. Previously, she served in other DHS roles including Section Chief, Intelligence Analysis. Early in her career, she was a market research analyst for Skandia and served as a public health analyst for USAID.

Carey earned her Bachelor’s degree, International Relations (Russian) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.