Stephen Goldsmith

Stephen Goldsmith is Professor of Urban Policy at Government and the Director of Data Smart City Solutions at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a project to highlight local government breakthroughs in the use of big data analytics. He also directs the Project on Municipal Innovation, a platform for cities' mayoral senior staff to share best practices and the Civic Analytics Network, which accelerates the use of data and analytics through the sharing of tools and learnings between chief data officers.

He previously served as Deputy Mayor of New York and Mayor of Indianapolis, where he earned a reputation as one of the country's leaders in public-private partnerships, competition, and privatization. Stephen was also the chief domestic policy advisor to the George W. Bush campaign in 2000, the Chair of the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the district attorney for Marion County, Indiana from 1979 to 1990. He has written six books the most recent of which is A New City O/S; The Power of open, Collaborative and Distributed Governance.