Anne Neville

Director, State Broadband Initiative, NTIA
U.S. Department of Commerce

Anne Neville currently directs the State Broadband Initiative at the National Telecommunications & Information Administration at the US Department of Commerce. In this capacity, she is responsible for both the National Broadband Map and grants to states to support the emerging digital economy, including local and state broadband planning, broadband and technology use, broadband data collection, and OpenGov and Gov2.0 efforts. Before this she was a Global Leadership Fellow focusing on IT and Telecom at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, and prior to this served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Development and Technology for the State of California, where she served as the lead staff to California's broadband initiative. In Anne's early work in this area, she managed a grant program to increase non-profit capacity through the use of IT and founded and directed a community center providing technology training and access to mainly immigrant populations. Anne holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a BA (Hons) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.