Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its collaborative project, The Governance Lab (The GovLab) and the MacArthur Research Network on Open Governance. Its author Solving Public Problems: How to Fix Our Government and Change Our World (Yale Press 2021), named a Best book of 2021 with Stanford Social Innovation Review, is on the faculty of Northeastern's Institute for Experiential AI. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy determined as the state's first Chief Innovation Officer and Chancellor Angela Merkel named her to it Digital Council in 2018. He is also Visiting Senior Faculty Associate at John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University and a member at NYU's Institute of Public Knowledge.
Previously, Beth served in the White House as the United States' first Deputy Chief Technology Officer and White House Director Open Government Initiative under President Obama. UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed her senior advisor for Open Government.
At GovLab, he directs better governance projects, including work with public institutions on public participation in legislation (CrowdLaw), expert resources to find innovative solutions to difficult problems (Smarter Crowdsourcing), and works with citizens and cities to co-create solutions to public problems (Challenges of the city). He also coaches the audience problem solversworking with passionate people to take their public interest projects from concept to implementation.
A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, he is a member of Library of Congress Council of Scholars and EPSRC Center for the Mathematics of Precision Healthcare. Beth also serves on its International Advisory Board NHS Digital Academy and Yankelovich Democracy Monitor, and as a member of Inter-American Development Bank, the President's Commission on Transparency and Corruption, and the Global Futures Council on Technology, Values and Policy for the World Economic Forum. She is a Executive member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (HELL), member of the Steering Committee for Collective Intelligence Conferences and GIGAPP (Grupo de Investigación en Gobierno, Administracion y Politicas Publicas) and visiting researcher in Japanese Chiba Institute of Technology Center for Radical Transformation. She is its co-editor Association for Computing Machinery's Digital Government Research and Practice magazine and its founding associate editor Journal of Collective Intelligence.
In 2018, Beth received a Robert Schumann Fellowship at European University Institute and a Richard von Weizsaecker Fellowship from Robert Bosch Foundation. In 2021, Beth was named one of the The world's 100 most influential academics in government with Apolitical. It was previously selected as one of the “Foreign Policy 100” with Foreign Policy as well as one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” with Fast Company and “Top Women in Technology” with Huffington Post.
Beth is also its author Smarter Citizens, Smarter State: Know-how Technologies and the Future of Governance (Harvard Univ Press 2015) and Wiki Government: How technology can make government better, democracy stronger, and citizens more empowered (Brookings 2009) and his co-editor The State of the Game: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (NYU Press, 2005).
