Edward Meagher

Deputy Chief Information Officer
Department of the Interior

A career senior executive, Mr. Meagher currently serves as the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Department of the Interior, providing direction, oversight and management of information technology for a diverse, billion dollar IT portfolio. In December of 2005 he was appointed as the Chief Technology Officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs. In August 2001 he was appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Technology in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As the senior career IT official in the Department he also served as VA’s Deputy Chief Information Officer, providing direction, oversight and management of information technology operations of the federal government’s largest civilian department, with a multi-billion dollar budget and over 225,000 employees in VA medical centers, clinics, benefits offices and national cemeteries throughout the country. In June 2003 Mr. Meagher was appointed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to serve in the position of Acting Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology. In this role, he also served as VA’s Acting Chief Information Officer, advising the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on all matters pertaining to information and technology management in the Department.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Meagher served as the Special Assistant to the Secretary on matters relating to information technology. Before joining VA, Mr. Meagher served as President and Chief Technology Officer for Entertainment News Services in Burbank, California. His extensive career in the area of information technology spans over 25 years.

Mr. Meagher has received numerous awards in recognition of his performance, leadership, and contributions in information technology, both in the federal arena and the private sector. Most notably, he was honored with a Federal 100 Award in 2001 and again in 2005. This award is presented to the 100 leaders who made a difference in federal information technology during the previous year. He also received the coveted FCW Eagle Award in 2005 presented annually to government executive who made a particular impact in the government IT community in the previous year.

An Air Force Veteran who served in Vietnam, he was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.