Sunayna joined the Federal Reserve System in 2021 as its first Chief Innovation Officer. With a bias for action, she leads the Fed’s innovation agenda, in collaboration with business and technology partners to strengthen innovation culture across the 12 Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors, and to ship meaningful outcomes that deliver value to the constituents and communities that we serve. The System Innovation team lead the Fed’s interrogation of frontier technology, both in assessing the potential application within the #Fed and to guide the policy making. Sunayna also leads the Fed’s research and development programs for Quantum Computing, Future of Money and Payments and the System GenAI Incubator.