Christopher Steven Marcum

• Open Science Advocate

  Mathematical Sociologist

  Gerontologist

  Science Policy Wonk*

Contact

• Website: www.chrismarcum.com
• Email: christopher.steven.marcum@gmail.com

• Social: Mastodon

  GitHub

  LinkedIn

  ORCID

Experience

Independent Consulting

• Senior Fellow, Center for Data Policy, Data Foundation (2025 - Present)
  • Providing thought leadership on federal data strategy, governance, and capacity building.
• MOVE Fellow, Handshake AI (2025)
  • Providing expertise on red-teaming, validating, and improving artificial intelligence systems.
• Select Clients
  • dataindex.us; Handshake.AI; Mercor; University of California, Berkeley; University of Michigan; SPARC; New Venture Fund

Executive Office of the President

• Senior Statistician & Senior Scientist, White House Office of Management and Budget (2023 - 2025)
  • Served in the Office of the Chief Statistician of the United States as lead for information and science policy, scientific integrity, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and the federal statistical research data center program.
• Assistant Director for Open Science & Data Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2022 - 2023)
  • Directed public access, scientific integrity, and open science policies for the whole of the federal government.

National Institutes of Health

• Staff Scientist for Data Policy, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2020 - 2021)
  • Led data science strategy and served as Genomic Program Administrator and Chair of the Data Access Committee.
• Staff Scientist for Methodology, National Human Genome Research Institute (2013 - 2021)
  • Maintained an extensive portfolio of basic research on social network methods, gerontology, and social determinants of health.

Education and Training

Education

• PhD, Sociology, University of California, Irvine (2011)
• MA, Demographic and Social Analysis, University of California, Irvine (2007)
• BA, Sociology, University of Arizona (2004)

Training

• Open Science 101, NASA (2023)
• OMB MAX Federal Sponsorship and Administrator Training, NITRD (2022)
• Google Cloud Platform Training, NIH (2020)
• Bioethics of Research on Aging, University of California, Berkeley (2014)
• Mid-Level Leadership, The Training Center, NIH (2016)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Economics and Statistics, RAND (2012)

Selected Service & Distinctions (2020 - Present)

Service

• Board Member, ASAPBio Board of Directors (2026 - Present)
• Member, Steering Committee for Ensuring the Preservation, Accessibility, and Usability of Public Data, Center for Open Science (2025 - Present)
• Chair, PREreview Scientific Advisory Committee (2025 - Present)
• Member, American Geophysical Union Data Goverance Board (2024 - Present)
• Board Member, PREreview Scientific Advisory Committee (2023 - Present)
• Chair, Federal Statistical Research Data Centers Executive Committee (2024 - 2025)
• Ex Officio Member for the Executive Office of the President, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Round Table on Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship (2023 - 2025)
• Staff Lead, Interagency Council on Statistical Policy Subcommittee on Cybersecurity (2023 - 2025)
• Co-Chair, National Science and Technology Policy Council, Subcommittee on Open Science (2022-2023)
• Co-Chair, National Science and Technology Policy Council, Subcommittee on Scientific Integrity (2022-2023)

Selected Distinctions

• Elected Full Member, Sigma Xi (2025)
• Time-Off Award, The White House (2025)
  • Citation: For outstanding policy analysis, effective collaboration, and written contributions in drafting OMB Memorandum M-25-21 on Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust and M-25-05 on Open Government Data Access and Management Guidance per the Foundations of Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018
• Special Achievement Group Award, The White House (2024)
  • Citation: For indispensible leadership, policy analysis, and teamwork to advance OMB information policy equities in the formulation of government-wide policy and governance via Executive Order 14110 and OMB Memorandum M-24-10 on Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence
• Time-Off Award, The White House (2024)
  • Citation: For effective interagency collaboration for the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, advancing the Cybersecurity Working Group’s efforts to align cybersecurity and statistical policy as well as the Federal Statistical Research Data Center Executive Committee’s three-prong strategic plan for equitable data access
• On the Spot Award, The White House (2023)
  • Citation: For spearheading the development of a three-prong action plan for the Federal Statistical Research Data Center Executive Committee, designed to expand equitable access to restricted, confidential Federal statistical data
• Special Acts or Service Award, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2022)
  • Citation: For establishing the Data Access Committee and leadership in the Office of Data Science and Emerging Technology during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Commendation of Exceptional Service, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2022)
  • Citation: For exceptional service to the American people as a member of the President’s Fast Track Action Committee on Scientific Integrity
• Elected Fellow, Gerontological Society of America (2022)
• GREAT Award, National Human Genome Research Institute (2020)
  • Citation: For extraordinary efforts and resilience during a difficult time of transition

Selected Scholarly Writing and Perspectives¹ (2020 - Present)

• Expand Data Access! (2025)
• National AI Ambitions Need a Data Governance Backbone. RDaF Can Provide It. (2025)
• Let Unfunded Grant Applications See the Light of Day (2025)
• Three Simple Steps to Reform Academic Reward Systems (2024)
• Peer review of “Open Science at the Generative AI Turn: An Exploratory Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities” (2024)
• Peer Review of “Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: 2023 Year in Review (Preprint)” (2024)
• Drinking from the Firehose? Write More and Publish Less (2024)
• NNI Nanoinformatics Conference 2023: Movement Toward a Common Infrastructure for Federal nanoEHS Data (2024)
• 2023: A Year of Open Science in Review (2024)
• A Plan to Develop Open Science’s Green Shoots into a Thriving Garden (2024)
• Advancing the culture of peer review with preprints (2023)
• A Framework for Federal Scientific Integrity Policy and Practice, National Science and Technology Council (2023)
• Short report: Vaccine attitudes in the age of COVID-19 for a population of children with mitochondrial disease (2022)
• Comprehensive profiling of the human viral exposome in households containing an at‐risk child with mitochondrial disease during the 2020–2021 COVID‐19 pandemic (2022)
• Public Access to Advance Equity (2022)
• Breakthroughs for All: Delivering Equitable Access to America’s Research, The White House (2022)
• Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories for Federally Funded Research, National Science and Technology Council (2022)
• Interpersonal Correlates of Dementia Caregivers’ Emotional Support Networks: Considering Family History, (2022)
• Undiagnosed COVID-19 in households with a child with mitochondrial disease (2022)
• Protecting the Integrity of Government Science, National Science and Technology Council (2022)
• Risk mitigation behaviors to prevent infection in the mitochondrial disease community during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
• Exponential-Family Random Graph Models for Multi-Layer Networks (2020)

1. Aligning with the movement to reform tenure and promotion by valuing content over prestige, I’ve decided to remove journal titles from my CV (see, HHMI’s plan). Additionally, I’ve linked to more equitable sources of the record of versions, including National Library of Medicine PubMed IDs, or DOIs to Green Open Access or preprint versions of these manuscripts whenever possible. Most of my writing is available through open licenses or through the public domain. A more complete publication history of over 70 articles can be found on my ORCID. ↩