Carole Post is the Executive Vice President at New York Law School and serves as its first Chief Strategy Officer. She was previously the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) and was the first woman to ever serve in these positions. Since 2001, she has held a number of senior management and legal positions at the City of New York under Mayors Bloomberg and Giuliani. At New York Law School, she will provide strategic direction to the Dean and the Law School’s senior staff and help implement strategic initiatives to support and enhance the institution. She will lead efforts to identify and develop operational efficiencies and to introduce innovative methods to achieve measurable outcomes. During her tenure with the City of New York, she led several Mayoral initiatives to modernize and streamline City services, improve accountability through increased transparency, and to improve the public’s access to government information and services. She led New York City’s open government initiative and in 2012 was widely praised for her role in advancing landmark legislation concerning the public’s access to City data. In 2011 she was recognized as one of the country’s top 50 CIOs by InformationWeek and was also named the New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law.