David Yokum serves as North Carolina’s Chief Scientist in the Office of State Budget and Management. He is also Professor of the Practice at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Data Science & Society, where he directs The Policy Lab. David was previously director of The Lab @ DC in the D.C. Mayor’s Office and, before that, a member of the White House’s Social and Behavioral Sciences Team and director of the U.S. Office of Evaluation Sciences. He works with local, state, and federal governments on how to generate and use evidence within policymaking, while also pursuing a research agenda on the psychology of how people change their minds and make decisions, especially as related to the interpretation and use of data.
