Laura Manley
Laura Manley is the Executive Director of the at the Harvard Kennedy School. The Center’s mission is to protect the information ecosystem and support a healthy democracy by addressing the crises of trust and truth in communities around the world.
Previously, Laura served as the founding Director of the Project at the Harvard Kennedy School . At TAPP, Laura launched several new initiatives including the , , and the to make advances in tech more inclusive, safer, and fairer. She has also to Congress twice on expertise and capacity in government.
Earlier in her career, Laura co-founded the (CODE) in Washington DC, which is a nonpartisan research organization that works with governments to leverage data for social and economic good. At CODE, she worked with over a dozen U.S. federal agencies on their data management strategies and with eight national governments on their digital economy policies and IT modernization efforts. She is also the lead author of the Open Data for Business Tool, which is a World Bank assessment methodology for private sector use of government data.
Laura is an Adjunct Professor at the , where she teaches Data for Social Innovation and Instructor at the , teaching Data-Driven Decision Making for Business Leaders. She previously served as Senior Consultant for the World Bank Group and the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs.