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Aaron Snow (he/him)

Acting Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation

Aaron Snow the acting Executive Director at Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation. A 2013 Presidential Innovation Fellow, in 2014 Aaron co-founded and then led 18F, the US government’s in-house technology and design consultancy, and was the first Deputy Commissioner of the government’s Technology Transformation Service. In 2018, he became the first CEO of the Government of Canada’s Canadian Digital Service. He has twice been named one of the “World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.”

Before entering government service, Aaron developed software and managed product development for small and large enterprises, and co-founded Daring Software, building the back-end for its flagship Arro shopping app. An honors graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, he serves on the Advisory Boards of gov.uk and FWD50.

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Inspiring & Interacting

The Beeck Center Takeover - G2G: Governments Sharing Digital Services

Federal, provincial, state, local, territorial, Indigenous, tribal: we live in many governments. Join us as we explore what it would mean to share digital services across government lines, with real world examples and lessons learned. See More.