Ann Dunkin

Ann Dunkin is an External Fellow and Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is also the CEO of Dunkin Global Advisors, providing strategic business advice to companies of all sizes as well as fractional CIO services. She serves on the advisory boards for several companies. During the Biden-Harris Administration, Ann served as Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she managed a $5 billion IT portfolio and a $1 billion high-performance computing budget. In this role, she spearheaded initiatives in cybersecurity, cloud migration, and digital transformation, aligning IT advancements with the DOE’s mission to promote energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.

Prior to her tenure at DOE, Ann held several key positions, including CIO of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Obama administration, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Dell Technologies, CIO for the County of Santa Clara, and Chief Technology Officer for the Palo Alto Unified School District. Her early career at Hewlett-Packard encompassed various leadership roles in engineering, research and development, IT, manufacturing engineering, software quality, and operations.

Throughout her career, Ann has demonstrated a commitment to leveraging technology to solve complex problems, enhance organizational performance, and deliver innovative solutions across both the private and public sectors.

Dunkin is a published author, with her most recent book titled Industrial Digital Transformation and a frequent speaker on topics such as emerging technology, including the intersection of energy, AI and quantum, government technology modernization, digital transformation, and organizational development.

Ann’s contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous accolades. Ann was recently named to the Forbes CIO Next list 2024. She also received the 2024 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) Captains of Industry Award and the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology’s 2024 Pinnacle Award. She has been given a range of previous awards, including a 2024 Fed 100 Award, the 2022 Capital CIO Large Enterprise ORBIE Award, DC’s Top 50 Women in Technology for 2015 and 2016, ComputerWorld’s Premier 100 Technology Leaders for 2016, StateScoop’s Top 50 Women in Technology list for 2017, FedScoop’s Golden Gov Executive of the Year in 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023,and 2024 and FedScoop’s Best Bosses in Federal IT 2022. She was also named to Washington Exec’s Ones to Watch list for 2023.

Ann holds a Master of Science degree and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a licensed professional engineer in the states of California and Washington and an IISE Fellow. In 2018, she was inducted into Georgia Tech’s Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni and in 2024 she was named to the inaugural list of “Women at Georgia Tech.”