Chief Data Officer, California Department of Social Services
Ryan Gillette was appointed Deputy Director and Chief Data Officer at the California Department of Social Services in 2021. Ryan has been Director of Public Sector Practice for Social Finance Inc. since 2019. He was Program Director of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Performance Lab from 2014 to 2019, where he was Social Impact Bond Government Innovation Fellow from 2012 to 2014. He was a Research Assistant for the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2008 to 2011 and Research Assistant at Harvard University from 2008 to 2009. Gillette earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.