Jason Lally, California’s chief data officer, works in the Office of Data and Innovation (ODI), part of the Government Operations Agency. Before his appointment in June 2024, Lally had served since January 2023 as deputy director of Data Services and Engineering at ODI; before that, he had been deputy chief data officer since 2022. Before joining state government, Lally held several positions at DataSF in San Francisco from 2014 to 2020, and he was a Mayor’s Innovation Fellow at the San Francisco Mayor’s Office from 2013 to 2014. Before that, he held several positions at PlaceMatters from 2008 to 2013. He is a San Francisco resident and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
