Dr. Kelly Fletcher
Golden Gov: Federal Executive of the Year
For the past two years, Fletcher has been leading the Department of State’s roughly $3 billion cybersecurity and IT portfolio and serving as the assistant-secretary level head for the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. She came to the department by way of the Department of Defense, where she served as principal deputy CIO. In her government career, Fletcher has focused on technology and strategic resourcing domains. Earlier this year, Fletcher announced the department was rolling out an internal AI chatbot for its staff as generative AI capabilities have taken off. That tool was something the agency’s workforce asked for, Fletcher said in those remarks, calling it a means to “let people experiment.”
