GAO: Building Integrated Portfolios of Evidence for Decision-Making

GAO Centennial Webinar – Foundations for Accountability: Building Integrated Portfolios of Evidence for Decision-Making

Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Time: 3:00pm ET

Zoom Link: https://gao.zoomgov.com/j/1605837173?pwd=T0JSM3Q0Q1JGT05MSWhUOVpENDNLUT09

This panel brings together academic experts from the Comptroller General’s Educators Advisory Panel (EAP) and other well-known practitioners with GAO Staff to discuss Evidence-Based Policymaking, including:

• GAO Panelist: Michelle Sager, Managing Director, Strategic Issues
• EAP Panelist: Kathy Newcomer, Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University
• Expert Panelist: Robert Shea, National Managing Principal, Grant Thornton
• EAP Panelist: Ramayya Krishnan, Dean Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
• GAO Panelist: Lawrance Evans, Managing Director, Applied Research and Methods

Panelists will discuss:

• opportunities for and obstacles to realizing the promise of evidence-based policymaking
• the importance of and challenges related to integrating various sources of evidence to provide better information to decision-makers, and
• how trends in technology, such as advanced data science and artificial intelligence, may shape the development and use of evidence in the future.