(US and Canada) Kirsten Dalboe, Chief Data Officer of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), won WashingtonExec’s 2022 Chief Officer Award for Government CDO of the Year. Dalboe was awarded at the annual event organized by WashingtonExec, recognizing the most impactful and innovative C-suite executives in government and industry in the greater Washington, DC, area.

Sharing her key career upticks of the year in an interview with WashingtonExec, Dalboe highlights building and maturing FERC’s data governance, launching a data science training program, delivering the first phase of the commission’s cloud-based analytics platform, and enabling stronger cross-agency collaboration among many others.

A reporting modernization project that Dalboe led consolidated 530 reports to only 50 by applying data governance practices and data standards enabling self-service for certified data sets and making data easily accessible for analysts. She further mentions that her passion for data, relationship building, and empowering her staff to deliver have been the driving ideals behind her success.