Law/Policy
Tamara Zeidan
Head of Innovation / Director of Innovation · DC- Deparment
Washington, DC
She built DC's first Office of Innovation from scratch, overseeing AI transformation.
About
Tamara Zeidan is the inaugural Director of the Office of Innovation, a role she began in December 2022. Previously, she was Senior Director of Partnerships at a tech for good company, served as a US State Department delegate in Morocco supporting women-led startups in Casablanca, and was Vice President of Development at C5's PeaceTech Accelerator, run with the US Institute of Peace. She has also worked at the Malala Fund, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and UNRWA. She is based in Washington DC and speaks Arabic and English.