State Dept. Appoints Paul Osborn as CDO for International Organization Affairs

In a post on LinkedIn, Paula Osborn announced that she has been chosen as the new Chief Data Officer for the Department of State’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs. This role is among the inaugural cohort of bureau CDOs at the State Department.

Osborn’s previous roles at State include Data Scientist in the Office of the Deputy CDO, and Data Scientist in the Office of Knowledge Management.

Osborn said: “I’m grateful for the privilege to work with our amazing United Nations and IO colleagues, as international collaboration to create a peaceful, secure, sustainable, and equitable world is more important than ever right now. Thanks Garrett Berntsen, Matthew Graviss, and everyone at State’s Center for Analytics for all of your guidance and encouragement to take on this new role!”