Lauren Sager Weinstein

Chief Data Officer at Transport for London (TfL)

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Lauren Sager Weinstein is TfL’s Chief Data Officer, working to bring value from TfL’s vast array of data--delivering data products and services, and helping Londoners journey across our network. Lauren created TfL’s data function formally in 2012 , having worked in TfL since 2002 in the areas of strategy, business planning, and technology development.

As Chief Data Officer, she heads TfL’s Data and Analytics department, which is a team of data scientists, data software developers and analytics translators who provide data tools for TfL to understand customer travel behaviour, and analytic tools to operate and plan London’s transport network. Originally from Washington, DC, USA, she has degrees from Princeton University and from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, who awarded Lauren the 2019 Alumni Award for Digital Innovation.

Lauren was named the 2017 UK Chief Data Officer of the year by the CDO Club, and was honoured to be included in The Female Lead’s 20 role models in Data & Technology 2017. She’s also made an appearance on the DataIQ100 List for several years.