About me
Tony LaVoi serves as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chief Data Officer (CDO). As the NOAA CDO, he is responsible for NOAA’s Data Strategy and all aspects of its implementation. The purpose of the NOAA Data Strategy is to dramatically accelerate the use of data across the agency and with other key partners, maximize openness and transparency, deliver on mission, and steward resources while protecting quality, integrity, security, privacy, and confidentiality. He and the CDO Team are also responsible for a suite of enterprise government information services, including Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), Information Quality Act (IQA), and Privacy compliance and reporting. Tony serves as NOAA’s Open Government Senior Lead and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Senior Agency Official for Geospatial Information.
Prior roles in NOAA include serving as the NOAA Geospatial Information Officer (GIO), as well as a National Ocean Service Information Services Director. The NOAA GIS community was inducted into the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) GIS Hall of Fame, received two Esri Making a Difference Awards, the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) Distinguished Service Award, and the FGDC Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion of the Year Award under Tony’s leadership.
Tony is a current or former member of the Department of the Interior’s National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC), Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services (ICAMS), Federal CDO Council, Federal Geographic Data Executive Committee, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS) Executive Council, and United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management Committee of Experts. Tony holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
