In accordance with the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act and associated OMB guidance (M-19-23), and in support of the President's Management Agenda's strategic goal of Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset, the Department of Commerce designates the following officials:

• Acting Chief Data Officer: Dr. Dominique Duval-Diop
• Evaluation Officer: Shawn Klimek
• Acting Statistical Official: George Cook

The Chief Data Officer and Evaluation Officer are placed within the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs. The Department has determined that the role of the Statistical Official will rotate every two years between the directors of the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Census Bureau Acting Director’s current term began July 1, 2025.

A catalog of the Department of Commerce's data holdings can be found at: https://data.commerce.gov/.

The Commerce Data Governance Board (CDGB) was established and held its first meeting in September 2019. The CDGB is the Department’s data governance and coordination body, chaired by the Commerce Chief Data Officer, with representatives from all Bureaus. The CDGB Terms of Reference were approved by its members in December 2019, and the body meets monthly to coordinate the management of Commerce data as an asset. 

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