Vinith Annam (he/him) is a Senior Program Manager for Data Labs at Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation. In this role, he advises state governments on how to take a data-driven approach toward improving the delivery of public services.

Vinith combines his leadership training, communications skills, and data analytics knowledge to help organizations build digital capacity. He previously was an Innovation Fellow at the Governor’s Office in Massachusetts and open data advisor at the Mayor’s Office in Paterson, NJ. Vinith was also an initial member of a healthcare tech startup named CareJourney, where he partnered with hospitals to improve care quality of patients by analyzing healthcare data.

Vinith is passionate about advancing the use of data for evidence-based policy and decision-making.

Vinith has a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. He is based in Washington, D.C.