Hudson Hollister is the founder and executive director of the Data Coalition. Prior to his work at the Data Coalition, Hudson was a securities litigator at Latham & Watkins and served as an attorney both at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives. Under his leadership, the Data Coalition has advocated for collection and publication of government data using a non-proprietary, machine-readable format, for the purposes of making government data available and useful to citizens and watchdogs, standardizing government data management, and permitting the automation of compliance processes. The coalition scored a major victory with the 2014 passage of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), which requires the Department of the Treasury and The White House Office of Management and Budget to transform U.S. federal spending from disconnected documents into open, standardized data, and to publish that data online.
