NIST Standards Body Lead — Federal Agency

**Dr. Patricia Alvarez** leads a standards development program at the **National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)**, the federal agency responsible for developing measurement standards, technology standards, and cybersecurity frameworks that underpin the US technology ecosystem. She oversees standards development in AI, cybersecurity (the NIST Cybersecurity Framework), and cloud computing. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and has spent 18 years at NIST.