Anne Neville has been appointed director of the California Research Bureau, the Brown administration announced on Monday.
Neville previously was director of product development for BroadbandUSA at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and was director of NTIA’s State Broadband Initiative since 2009. Part of her duties there included development of broadbandmap.gov and a new $300 million grant program.
Neville has experience working in California state government, having served as assistant secretary for economic development and technology at the California Business Transportation and Housing Agency in 2008. She was manager of the California Broadband Initiative from 2007 to 2008. Neville also was a senior analyst at the California Public Utilities Commission and an aide to former state Sen. Sheila Kuehl.
Neville begins at the California Research Bureau on June 10. The bureau provides nonpartisan research services to the governor’s office, the Legislature and other elected officials.
Neville discussed her work on NTIA’s State Broadband Initiative in this 2012 interview with Techwire:
