Federal 100: Gina Pearson
Name: Gina Pearson
Title: Assistant Administrator for Communications
Agency/Company: Energy Information Administration
A fount of information. Pearson has been at the forefront of making energy data accessible, understandable, relevant and responsive to users’ needs. She expanded the EIA’s portfolio of open-data products to include a bulk download capability, widgets that allow users to embed interactive visualizations of energy data into any website and tools that enable users to automatically import and then manipulate EIA’s data. Pearson further advanced EIA’s delivery of energy data with the launch of the new U.S. Electric System Operating Data tool, which features analysis and visualizations of hourly, daily and weekly electricity supply and demand on national and regional levels.