Erik Noble

Dr. Erik Noble is the Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where he is the White House lead for data and Earth observations policy. He is a co-chair of the interagency U.S. Group on Earth Observations and co-lead for the cross-agency priority goal of Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset. Prior to joining OSTP, Dr. Noble served as a Senior Policy Advisor for NOAA and the Acting Chief of Staff of NASA. Erik briefly worked as a data science professional in the financial industry and as a Post-Doc Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor in atmospheric science at the City College of New York before joining the government. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from the University of Colorado while conducting numerical modeling research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. He also earned an M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado and a B.S. in Meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University.