Richard Y. Wang

Richard Y. Wang is the founder and executive director of the Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wang is widely acknowledged as the "Founder of Information Quality"—the scholar who made Information Quality an established field. For the past three decades, he advocated that the importance of information quality must be embraced at the highest level of organizations. He championed and led a movement to establish the position of Chief Data Officers in all organizations. His pioneering work culminated in a wide-scale adoption of the Chief Data Officer role worldwide. Notably, in 2019, the U.S. Congress enacted the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 into law, which statutorily mandated all federal agencies to establish and appoint a CDO for their agency.

Wang had served as a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management for almost a decade. Currently he is Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Also, he is a tenured University Professor of Information Quality and Director of the Institute for Chief Data Officers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is an Honorary Professor at Xi’An Jiao Tong University, China. He received a Ph.D. in Information Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1985. Provided by Wikipedia