Data and Society Council

Members of the Data and Society Council support Columbia's commitment to expanding data science to every corner of the University.

Data and Society Council

Carme Artigas

  • Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, Government of Spain

Armen Avanessians

  • Trustee, Council Co-Chair, EN’83, P: CC’12, CC’17, IA’17
  • Chief Investment Officer (Retired), Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Herb Cunitz

  • EN’85
  • Board of Directors, DataRPM

Michael Donovan

  • P: EN’13
  • Vice Chairman, Board of Directors of MediaOcean

Shahram Ebadollahi

  • EN’99, EN’02, EN’05, BU’16
  • Operating Partner, Private Equity

Shawn Edwards

  • EN’90, EN’95, P: EN’17
  • Chief Technology Officer, Bloomberg

Roger Ehrenberg

  • BU’93
  • Founder and Managing Partner, Eberg Capital, IA Capital and IA Sports Ventures

Tom Fortin

  • EN’86
  • Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer, iCapital Network

Ben Fried

  • Council Co-Chair, CC’88
  • Venture Partner, Rally Ventures

Claire Le Gal

  • BU’99
  • Senior Vice President, Fraud Intelligence, Strategy & Cyber Products, Mastercard

Michael Leiter

  • CC’91
  • Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Mahmoud Naghshineh

  • EN'94
  • Vice President of AI Impact and Partnerships, IBM Research

Georgia Papathomas

  • EN’73, EN’74, EN’78
  • Advisor, Investor, Board Member

Jim Pastoriza

  • EN’84
  • Managing Partner, TDF Ventures

Arihant Patni

  • GF'03
  • Managing Director, Patni Financial Advisors

Deb Rieman

  • GF’76, GF’78
  • Executive Chairman of the Board, MetaMarkets

Alfred Z. Spector

  • Visiting Scholar, MIT

Kathryn Surace-Smith

  • Trustee, LW'84
  • Vice President and General Counsel, NanoString Technologies, Inc.

Leonard Tow

  • GF’52, GF’60, P: BC’87
  • Founder and Chief Executive Officer, New Century Holdings
  • Chairman, Tow Foundation

Richard E. Witten

  • CC’75, P: CC’10, BUS’15, LAW’15
  • Senior Managing Director, Orienta Group
  • Managing Member, RSW Capital Management

HongJiang Zhang

  • Venture Partner, SourceCode Capital
  • Senior Advisor, Carlyle Group
  • Chairman, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence