Bio

Katherine Benjamin was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Digital Services at the New York City Mayor's Office of the CTO; she later joined the Government of Canada as an Assistant Deputy Minister, and Chief Digital Officer.

Previously, Katherine was the Vice President of Service Design at Ayogo, a company twice recognized globally as one of the top 100 most innovative digital health companies. Her experience in public sector digital transformation includes launching the Ontario Digital Service's rapid prototyping and user research labs, and working on the NHS.uk Alpha inception team. Katherine has co-led curriculum development at the undergraduate level at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver) and at the graduate level at Columbia University (New York City).

Katherine has a Master of Science in Health, Community and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (London), and completed her undergraduate degree in Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).