Veronica Lane

Veronica Lane, Ph.D. serves as the Chief Data Officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Budget and Performance Management within the Department of the Interior, where she is responsible for building up the data management capacity for Indian Affairs. She established the Indian Affairs Data Governance Board and facilitates the inter-agency Indian Country Data Working Group. Lane has developed and implemented data policy across multiple bureaus.

Lane previously served as the acting Chief Performance Officer in DOI’s Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). She supervised the Chief Performance Office and managed all workstreams including implementation of BIE’s Strategic Direction, BIE’s High Risk Fiscal Assessment and Monitoring, and all BIE information collections. She also served as the BIE principal/representative on the DOI Data Governance Board.

Before joining DOI, Lane was Lead Data Manager for the University of New Mexico, where she had previously worked as an adjunct lecturer, a graduate research assistant, and Lab Manager for the Indigenous Research Lab within the Educational Psychology Program.

She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and her Master of Arts in Educational Psychology from the University of New Mexico. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University.