A Conversation with the Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Trade Commission Stephanie Nguyen (MPP 2019)

Speakers

Stephanie Nguyen

Stephanie Nguyen was named Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Trade Commission on October 3, 2022, after having served in the role in an acting capacity since October 2021. She brings over a decade of leadership building and designing technical products and services across government, academia, civil society, and the private sector, specializing in human-computer interaction design and user experience research. Prior to her tenure at the FTC, Nguyen worked at the U.S. Digital Service at the White House and as a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nguyen holds an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, where she studied as a Gleitsman Scholar, and earned her B.A. in Digital Media Theory & Design from the University of Virginia.