CTO Aneesh Chopra
"Our mission is to assist the President in harnessing the power and potential of technology, data and innovation to transform the Nation's economy and improve the lives of everyday Americans." – Aneesh Chopra, U.S. CTO
Aneesh Chopra is the United States Chief Technology Officer and in this role serves as an Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy. He works to advance the President’s technology agenda by fostering new ideas and encouraging government-wide coordination to help the country meet its goals from job creation, to reducing health care costs, to protecting the homeland. He was sworn in on May 22nd, 2009. Prior to his appointment, he served as Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2006 until April 2009. He previously served as Managing Director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly-traded healthcare think tank. Chopra was named to Government Technology magazine’s Top 25 in their Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers issue in 2008. Aneesh Chopra received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and his M.P.P. from Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Blog Posts
- Spotlight on NextGen – Why Accelerating Infrastructure Matters
- Celebrating an Innovative Approach to Consumer Protection
- Delivering on the Promise of Innovation to Help Prevent Cyberbullying
- Open Government Action Plan for Innovators
- The United States Releases its Open Government National Action Plan
- Innovating our System for Innovation
- Modeling a Green Energy Challenge after a Blue Button
- The President’s American Jobs Act: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- From Silicon Valley to Main Street Virginia
- Roundtable on Securing Networks through Open Innovation
- Let’s “Make in Detroit”
- Remembering What Inspires the American Dream
- An Invitation to Our Latest Open Innovation Ecosystem: Energy.Data.Gov
- Taking the Pulse on Health IT Exports
- Inventing a Better Patent System
- White House Event Amps Up Grid Modernization Efforts
- All in a Day’s Work: Making Room for Billions More Internet Users and Their Devices
- An Important Bipartisan Milestone for Spectrum Policy
- Collaborating on Public Safety Broadband
- Roundtable Informs Wireless Innovation for Transportation
- Connecting Students to America’s Energy Challenge
- New Common-Sense Immigration Reforms to Strengthen Our Economy
- "Know Before You Owe"
- Entrepreneurs Key to Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
- Digital Literacy Initiative Aims to Help Americans Build Online Skills
- New Partnership to Strengthen Mobile Health Programs for Moms
- Drawing Inspiration on Smart Grid Innovation from America's Youth
- Tech Community SCOREs with Vet Entrepreneurs
- A Business Guide to the Next Generation Internet Address
- Department of Transportation’s Wireless Research Ties Intelligent Transport to Clean Fleets
- Access to Capital: Fueling Business Growth and Job Creation
- Winning the Future with STEM Video Games
- Three Trends on Fostering Innovation
- Startup America Travels to South by Southwest
- Sending Health Data Safely and Securely Over the Internet
- Setting Standards: We Want to Hear From You
- ExpertNet Wiki: An Update
- Holiday Season Merrimack Making
- CTO Forum: Meeting Held to Discuss Opportunities for Collaboration
- What You Missed: Tuesday Talk on the Anniversary of the Open Government Directive
- Designing for Democracy
- Partnership for Cybersecurity Innovation
- Video from National Entrepreneurs’ Day Event
- President Obama's Strong Commitment to Net Neutrality and an Open Internet
- Government as Convener - Fostering Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
- The "Apps for Healthy Kids" Envelope, Please
- Administration Bolstering Efforts on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- The NNI Strategy Portal – A Pathway to New Ideas for Nanotechnology Innovation
- Innovation for America: Technology for Economic Growth and Empowering Americans
- "Hacking for Humanity"
- Help Change the Game in Cybersecurity!
Presentations
- August 18, 2010 - Innovation and Technology for Healthcare (pdf)
- August 17, 2010 - Building a Future for Technological Innovation (pdf)
- February 18, 2010 - Leveraging the Power of Information to Help Conquer Cancer: A Conversation with Aneesh Chopra, U.S. CTO (pdf)
Testimony
- July 14, 2010 - Statement of Aneesh Chopra to the Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection on Advanced Manufacturing (pdf)
- June 22, 2010 - Statement of Aneesh Chopra to the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Competitiveness, Innovation and Export Promotion United States Senate on Innovation in America: Opportunities and Obstacles (pdf)
- March 24, 2010 - Statement of Aneesh Chopra to the Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation United States House of Representatives on Supporting Innovation in the 21st Century Economy (pdf)
- March 23, 2010 - U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra Testifies Before the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
- December 10, 2009 - U.S. Chief Technology Officer Testifies Before Senate Budget Committee (pdf)
- June 16, 2009 - Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra testifies on the Future of Learning before the House Committee on Education and Labor (pdf)
- May 19, 2009 - Aneesh Chopra Testifies Before Commerce Committee (pdf)
