Matt Bailey
Matt Bailey is a Senior Strategic Advisor to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) digital democracy portfolio. Matt advises regional teams and field offices to advance and implement IFES thought leadership and programming on issues at the intersection of technology and democracy. Matt came to IFES with almost two decades of experience as a technical and policy advisor, civil servant, technologist, and cybersecurity engineer.
Matt’s service in government includes leading the policy team in the Office of the U.S. Chief Information Officer under two presidents. While at the White House, Bailey was part of the teams that launched the first-ever U.S. government-wide open source and legislative data initiatives and led its participation in the Open Government Partnership. Previously, Bailey served the city of Washington, D.C. as its director of technology innovation and was an early employee at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He has also served as a cybersecurity engineer and analyst and software developer, as well as founded Code for D.C., an affiliate of Code for America. Matt holds an M.A. in literature from Georgetown University, USA.
