Joel Gurin
President and Founder, Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE)
Joel Gurin is President and Founder of the Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE), a Washington-based 501(c)3 nonprofit that works to maximize the value of open data as a public good. CODE has worked with the White House and more than a dozen U.S. Federal agencies, as well as several national governments, to help make their data programs more relevant and actionable. CODE is well known for its Data Roundtables, high-level facilitated convenings designed to develop strategies and action plans with data providers and users. In 2019, CODE completed a series of Roundtables and reports with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on data sharing for AI, data privacy, and data on social determinants of health.
Mr. Gurin is the author of Open Data Now (McGraw-Hill), written for a general audience, a 2014 book that helped define this emerging field. Before launching CODE in January 2015 he conceptualized and led the development of the GovLab’s Open Data 500, the first major study of the use of open government data by the private sector. CODE regularly partners with private-sector companies and foundations including Accenture, Amazon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Microsoft, ZeOmega, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
Mr. Gurin has a background in government, journalism, nonprofit leadership, and consumer issues. He served as Chair of the White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure, which studied how open data can improve consumer markets, and as Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. For over a decade he was Editorial Director and then Executive Vice President of Consumer Reports, where he directed the launch and development of ConsumerReports.org, the world’s largest paid-subscription information-based website. He is a graduate of Harvard University with an A.B. in Biochemical Sciences, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Gurin is the author of Open Data Now (McGraw-Hill), written for a general audience, a 2014 book that helped define this emerging field. Before launching CODE in January 2015 he conceptualized and led the development of the GovLab’s Open Data 500, the first major study of the use of open government data by the private sector. CODE regularly partners with private-sector companies and foundations including Accenture, Amazon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Microsoft, ZeOmega, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
Mr. Gurin has a background in government, journalism, nonprofit leadership, and consumer issues. He served as Chair of the White House Task Force on Smart Disclosure, which studied how open data can improve consumer markets, and as Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. For over a decade he was Editorial Director and then Executive Vice President of Consumer Reports, where he directed the launch and development of ConsumerReports.org, the world’s largest paid-subscription information-based website. He is a graduate of Harvard University with an A.B. in Biochemical Sciences, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.