Erie Meyer has spent her career modernizing government services and working to enforce the law against corporate repeat offenders. Most recently, she served as Chief Technologist and Senior Advisor to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), where she helped lead efforts to address Big Tech’s lurch into financial services, and was part of the original team that launched the agency. There, she helped set up the consumer complaint system and release open data.

Before returning to the CFPB, Ms. Meyer served as Chief Technologist and Director of Policy Planning for FTC Chair Lina Khan, and was Technology Advisor to then-Commissioner Rohit Chopra. She also co-founded and wrote the first line of code at the U.S. Digital Service at the White House.Earlier, she was a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House, a Senior Director at Code for America, and a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. Ms. Meyer began her public service in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office during the financial crisis, building open-source tools to help protect Ohioans’ consumer rights.

She holds a B.A. in journalism and government from American University and is a contributor to open source software. She’s also a proud mom.