Kristin Switzer is the Senior Advisor to the Chief Data Officer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she facilitates collaboration across the Bureau’s business components to lead and operationalize the agency’s Enterprise Data Strategy, a shared agenda for the Bureau to better leverage data to achieve its mission. In addition to providing guidance and counsel to the CDO and members of the Office of the Chief Data Officer leadership team, Kristin oversees strategic planning, budget and procurement, metrics, stakeholder communications and engagement, and serves as the gatekeeper to OCDO for internal and external partners.

Including several years at the U.S. Department of Justice, Kristin’s career in the federal government and private sector, and her experience working at the intersection of business, operations, policy, technology, and data, spans over 17 years. Since joining the Bureau in 2013, Kristin has served on numerous rulewriting teams, was instrumental in establishing the Bureau’s Regulatory Implementation & Guidance function, developed the Concept of Operations and inaugural roadmap that laid the foundation for the establishment of the OCDO, and led a major reg tech initiative, which earned her the Bureau’s highest honor, the Director’s Mission Achievement Award. Kristin earned a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Society and Women’s Studies from Purdue University and recently completed an executive education course on artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.