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Aneesh Chopra
1st Chief Technology Officer of the United States
In office August 7, 2009 – February 8, 2012^[1]
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Todd Park^[2]
Personal details
Born	(1972-07-13) July 13, 1972 (age 39)^[3] Trenton, New Jersey, United States^[4]
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Rohini Dhir^[5]^[6]
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University Harvard University

Aneesh Paul Chopra was the first American Federal Chief Technology Officer of the United States (CTO). Chopra previously served as Virginia’s fourth Secretary of Technology.

Background

He was born in 1972 in Trenton, New Jersey, the eldest son of Indian immigrants Ram and Neelam Chopra.^[6] He grew up in West Windsor, New Jersey, also known as Princeton Junction, New Jersey, and attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South from 1986-1990.^[7] In 2009, Chopra was awarded the Alumni Achiever Award by the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. Chopra graduated with his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and his M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He was elected as a Boys Nation Senator to represent American Legion Jersey Boys State in 1989.^[8]

After his studies, Chopra was Managing Director for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals and health systems. While there, he led the firm’s Financial Leadership Council and the Working Council for Health Plan Executives.^[9]^[10]. Virginia Governor Tim Kaine appointed Chopra to be Virginia's fourth Secretary of Technology^[11]. He served in this position until 2009 when he was selected by President Barack Obama to be the first "Chief Technology Officer" for the White House.

On announcing Chopra's nomination, President Obama outlined his aims for the CTO. "As Chief Technology Officer, Chopra's job will be to promote technological innovation to help the country meet its goals such as job creation, reducing health care costs, and protecting the homeland. Together with Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, their jobs are to make the government more effective, efficient, and transparent."^[12] Chopra's appointment was confirmed by the Senate on May 21, 2009.^[13]

On the December 9, 2009 episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Chopra was featured in a segment in which a series of video clips were shown of him laughing as he went through an explanation of the Open Government Initiative. During the segment, host Jon Stewart referred to Chopra as the "Indian George Clooney."^[14]^[15]

Chopra voluntarily left the White House in early 2012, speculatively to run for office in his home state of Virginia.^[16]

External links

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Biography at the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Aneesh Chopra at WhoRunsGov at The Washington Post
Appearances on C-SPAN
Works by or about Aneesh Chopra in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

References

^ Ashely Southall (01/27/2012). "Top Technology Official Leaving the White House". New York Times. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/top-technology-official-leaving-the-white-house/. Retrieved 03/13/2012.
^ Hart, Kim (03/11/2012). "At SXSW, Todd Park talks startups". Politico. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73848.html. Retrieved 03/13/2012.
^ Linnell, Lisa Prezioso; Hayes, Heather B. (1 Feb 2008), "The collaborative strategist", Virginia Business (Virginia Business Publications): virginabusiness.com, http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/the-collaborative-strategist/198/
^ "Introducing Aneesh Chopra: America’s CTO", The Indofiles, 18 Apr 2009, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2010, http://web.archive.org/web/20100212123735/http://theindofiles.com/2009/04/18/introducing-aneesh-chopra-americas-cto/
^ http://www.netcaucus.org/biography/aneesh-chopra.shtml
^ ^a ^b http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_files/AneeshChopraTestimony.pdf
^ Tracy, Ryan. "Obama taps WW-PS alum for technology post", The Times (Trenton), April 21, 2009. Accessed February 22, 2011. "President Obama has picked a graduate of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School to be the nation's first chief technology officer. Aneesh Chopra, 36, graduated from West Windsor's south campus in 1990 and spent the last three years as secretary of technology under Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine."
^ http://www.aljbs.org/cgi-bin/results.cgi/govsens.
^ Office Info Bio."Aneesh Paul Chopra, Secretary of Technology", "Virginia.gov", accessed August 18, 2009.
^ http://www.executivebiz.com/newsletter-executives-detail.php?who=achopra&check=1
^ "The Honorable Aneesh P. Chopra". VITA. http://www.vita.virginia.gov/itib/default.aspx?id=641. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
^ Press Release," Whitehouse.gov, 18 April 2009
^ "Confirmations". Congressional Record Online. Government Printing Office. 2009-05-21. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2009-05-21/html/CREC-2009-05-21-pt1-PgS5888-6.htm. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
^ Video of Aneesh Chopra on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart discussing the Open Government Initiative, on December 9, 2009
^ Video of Aneesh Chopra Aneesh takes his Daily Show appearance in stride in December, 2009
^ O'Keefe, Ed (01/27/2012). "Aneesh Chopra leaving the White House, likely to run for Virginia lieutenant governor". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/aneesh-chopra-leaving-the-white-house/2012/01/27/gIQAMB2VVQ_blog.html. Retrieved 14 April 2012.

Barack Obama's Executive Office of the President

Office	Name	Term	Office	Name	Term
White House Chief of Staff White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy	Rahm Emanuel Pete Rouse William M. Daley Jacob Lew Mona Sutphen Nancy-Ann DeParle	2009–2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012- 2009-2011 2011-	National Security Advisor Deputy National Security Advisor	Jim Jones Tom Donilon Thomas E. Donilon Denis McDonough	2009–2010 2010- 2009–2010 2010-
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Senior Advisor to the President Deputy Senior Advisor to the President Counselor to the President	Jim Messina Alyssa Mastromonaco David Axelrod David Plouffe Stephanie Cutter Pete Rouse	2009–2011 2011- 2009–2011 2011- 2011- 2009-	Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications	Douglas Lute^† Ben Rhodes	2009– 2009–
Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement	Valerie Jarrett	2009–	Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security	John O. Brennan	2009–
Director of Public Engagement	Christina Tchen Jon Carson	2009–2011 2011--	Deputy National Security Advisor and NSC Chief of Staff	Denis McDonough Brooke Anderson	2009-2010 2011-
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs	Cecilia Muñoz	2009–	White House Communications Director	Daniel Pfeiffer	2009-
Director, National Economic Council	Lawrence Summers Gene Sperling	2009–2010 2011-	Deputy White House Communications Director White House Press Secretary	Jennifer Psaki Robert Gibbs Jay Carney	2009– 2009–2011 2011-
Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Diana Farrell	2009–	Deputy Press Secretary	Bill Burton	2009–2011
Deputy Director, National Economic Council Deputy Director, National Economic Council	Jason Furman Brian Deese	2009– 2011-	Director of Special Projects	Stephanie Cutter	2010-2011
Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board	Paul Volcker	2009–	Director of Speechwriting	Jon Favreau	2009–
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors	Christina Romer Austan Goolsbee	2009–2010 2010-	White House Counsel Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Robert Bauer Kathryn Ruemmler Phil Schiliro Rob Nabors	2009–2011 2011- 2009–2011 2011-
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Katharine Abraham	2011-	Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs	Lisa Konwinski	2009–
Member of the Council of Economic Advisors	Cecilia Rouse	2009–	Executive Clerk	George T. Saunders^†	2009–
Director, Office of Management and Budget	Peter Orszag Jacob Lew	2009–2010 2010–2012	Director, Office of Political Affairs Chief Technology Officer	Patrick Gaspard Aneesh Chopra	2009–2011 2009–
Chief Performance Officer and Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Zients	2009–	Chief Information Officer Director, Office of Presidential Personnel	Steven VanRoekel Nancy Hogan	2011– 2010–
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget	Jeffrey Liebman Heather Higginbottom*	2010–2010 2011-	Director of Scheduling and Advance Director, White House Military Office	Alyssa Mastromonaco Danielle Crutchfield George D. Mulligan, Jr.	2009–2011 2011- 2009–
United States Trade Representative	Ron Kirk	2009–	Cabinet Secretary	Chris Lu	2009–
Director, Domestic Policy Council	Melody Barnes	2009–	Deputy Cabinet Secretary	Liz Sears Smith	2009–
Deputy Director, Domestic Policy Council	Heather Higginbottom Mark Zuckerman	2009–2011 2011-	Staff Secretary	Lisa Brown	2009–
Director, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships	Joshua DuBois	2009–	Director, Office of Management and Administration	Bradley Kiley	2009–
Director, Office of Health Reform	Nancy DeParle	2009–2011	Director, Oval Office Operations	Micaela Fernandez	2009–
Deputy Director, Office of Health Reform	Jeanne Lambrew	2009–	Personal Aide to the President	Reggie Love	2009–
Director, Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy	Carol Browner	2009–2011	Personal Secretary to the President	Katie Johnson Anita Decker	2009–2011 2011-
Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change	Heather Zichal	2009–	Special Projects Coordinator and Confidential Assistant to the President	Eugene Kang	2009–
Director, Council on Environmental Quality Director, Office of National AIDS Policy	Nancy Sutley Jeffrey Crowley	2009– 2009–	Chief of Staff to the First Lady	Jackie Norris Susan Sher Christina Tchen	2009 2009–2010 2011-
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy	Gil Kerlikowske	2009–	White House Social Secretary	Desirée Rogers Julianna Smoot Jeremy Bernard	2009–2010 2010–2011 2011–
Director, Office of Urban Affairs Policy	Adolfo Carrión, Jr.	2009–	Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy	John Holdren	2009–

^*Senate-confirmation pending. ^†Remained from previous administration (s).

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Name	Chopra, Aneesh
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Date of birth	July 13, 1972
Place of birth	Trenton, New Jersey
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