Ted Kaouk
Federal Leadership
As chief data officer and deputy director for human capital data management and modernization at the Office of Personnel Management, Ted Kaouk has worked on boosting data skills within the federal government, increasing access to OPM data, and building new dashboards, including for the agency’s annual federal employee viewpoint surveys. Kaouk is also the chair of the Federal Chief Data Officers Council, which focuses on improving the ways the government uses data. Before 2021, he served as the Chief Data Officer for the Department of Agriculture.