Joyce Hunter

Joyce Hunter is the Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) and the Distinguished Fellow for Food, Agriculture and Healthcare. Previously, she served as both the Interim CIO and Deputy CIO of the US Department of Agriculture. She’s managed multi-billion-dollar IT budgets and established or led several data governance and PMO initiatives. She understands how to communicate with and across diverse communities and how to forge relationships that enable those stakeholders to succeed. She regularly uses these skills in both her TEDx talks and publications. Joyce has a BA from Villanova University and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. She holds certificates in Emotional Intelligence, Design Thinking, Technology Business Management (TBM), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and a Qualified Technical Expert (DDN). She sits on multiple industry boards and is active in several philanthropies focused on advancing STEM and Data Science education for underserved and underrepresented youth.