Beth Simone Noveck

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| name = Beth Noveck

| image = BethNoveckJI1.jpg

| caption = Noveck in 2009

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|07|16}}

| birth_place = Toms River, New Jersey, U.S.

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| occupation = Professor, Northeastern University

Director, The Governance Lab and The Burnes Family Center for Global Impact

Chief Innovation Officer, The State of New Jersey

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| alma_mater = {{ubl|Harvard, A.B. 1991, A.M. 1992|University of Innsbruck, Ph.D. 1994|Yale Law School, J.D. 1997}}

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Beth Simone Noveck (born 1971) is a professor at Northeastern University and the 1st Chief AI Strategist for the State of New Jersey.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-25 |title=New Jersey Appoints Beth Noveck as First Chief AI Strategist |url=https://www.govtech.com/workforce/new-jersey-appoints-beth-noveck-as-first-chief-ai-strategist |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=GovTech |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=cnihill |date=2024-01-31 |title=New Jersey names former White House adviser as innovation chief, appoints first chief AI strategist |url=https://statescoop.com/new-jersey-dave-cole-innovation-chief-beth-noveck-ai-strategist/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=StateScoop |language=en-US}} She previously served as founding Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey.{{Cite web|url=https://www.njspotlight.com/2018/08/18-08-15-gearing-up-for-the-future-new-jersey-gets-its-first-innovation-chief/|title=Gearing Up for the Future: New Jersey Gets its First Innovation Chief|date=August 16, 2018|website=NJ Spotlight}}{{cite web |title=New Jersey Hires GovLab Founder as Its First Chief Innovation Officer |url=https://www.govtech.com/pcio/articles/New-Jersey-Hires-GovLab-Founder-as-Its-First-Chief-Innovation-Officer.html |website=Government Technology |publisher=e.Republic |access-date=18 April 2019}} At [https://provost.northeastern.edu/leadership/beth-noveck/ Northeastern], she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The Governance Lab.{{cite web |title=Team |url=https://thegovlab.org/beth-simone-noveck.html |access-date=18 April 2019 |website=The GovLab website |publisher=The Governance Lab}} She is also affiliated faculty with the Institute for Experiential AI. She is the author of Solving Public Problems: How to Fix our Government and Change Our World (Yale Press 2021),{{Cite web |title=Solving Public Problems |url=https://solvingpublicproblems.org/ |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=solvingpublicproblems.org |language=en}} Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government (Harvard 2015),{{Cite web |title=Smart Citizens, Smarter State — Beth Simone Noveck |url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674286054 |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=www.hup.harvard.edu |language=en}} Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings 2009),{{Cite web |last=Noveck |first=Beth Simone |date=November 2, 2010 |title=Wiki Government |url=https://www.brookings.edu/book/wiki-government/ |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}} and co-editor of the State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds (NYU 2006).{{Cite web |title=The State of Play |url=https://nyupress.org/9780814799727/the-state-of-play |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=NYU Press |language=en-US}}

She is also a Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University,{{cite web |title=Beth Simone Noveck Appointed Visiting Senior Faculty Fellow |url=https://www.heldrich.rutgers.edu/newsroom/beth-simone-noveck-appointed-visiting-senior-faculty-fellow |website=EJB School of Planning and Public Policy website |publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=18 April 2019 |date=2018-08-16}} and a senior fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.{{cite web |title=Beth Noveck |url=https://law.yale.edu/beth-noveck |website=Yale Law School Department Website |publisher=Yale University |access-date=18 April 2019}} She also served as one of nine members of the Digitalrat, a council to advise German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues concerning the digital transformation of society.{{cite web |title=The faces behind the Digital Council |url=https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/issues/the-faces-behind-the-digital-council-1504894 |website=Press and Information Office of the Federal Government |publisher=German Government |access-date=18 April 2019}}

From 2009 to 2011, she was the United States deputy chief technology officer for open government and led President Obama's Open Government Initiative. She also served on the Obama-Biden Transition Team. She was based at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and served as an expert on governance, technology and institutional innovation.{{cite web |last=Montalbano |first=Elizabeth |url=https://www.informationweek.com/government/leadership/white-house-loses-open-government-leader/d/d-id/1095369 |title=White House Loses Open Government Leader |work=Information Week |access-date=17 April 2019}} On May 16, 2011, she was appointed senior advisor for Open Government by UK Prime Minister David Cameron.{{cite web |title=Speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP, at Google Zeitgeist 2011 |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/speech-by-the-chancellor-of-the-exchequer-rt-hon-george-osborne-mp-at-google-zeitgeist-2011 |website=Speeches |publisher=UK Government |access-date=18 April 2019}} She is a commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cigionline.org/|title=Homepage | Centre for International Governance Innovation|website=www.cigionline.org}} On August 13, 2018, Noveck was appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to be the Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Beth Simone Noveck {{!}} Office of Innovation, State of New Jersey |url=https://innovation.nj.gov/team/beth-noveck/ |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=innovation.nj.gov |language=en-US}}