Dr. Anthony Scriffignano
Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, is Distinguished Fellow of the Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council at The Stimson Center and Executive Vice President of Data & Analytics at an aerospace venture working on hyperspectral space intelligence. For two decades, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Data Scientist at Dun & Bradstreet, and the CDO Club named him U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2018. He has more than 40 years of experience in computational linguistics, anomaly detection, and advanced inference algorithms.
The Stimson Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan Washington, D.C. think tank devoted to international peace and security. Anthony has been a member of its Loomis Innovation Council since 2022 and a Distinguished Fellow since 2023. The council brings technology leaders and policymakers together on digital security, AI governance, and climate resilience.
Anthony has shared stages with our Distinguished Fellow David A. Bray at the Quantum World Congress and the NYPD Cyber Intelligence & Counterterrorism Conference. Watch The Red Queen Problem with Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, Data Scientist, also available on Spotify.
He writes on decision-making under disruption. In 2026, he contributed the chapter Illuminating the Invisible: AI’s Role in Understanding Complex, Opaque, and Dynamic Ecosystems to The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities, edited by our Max Rangeley and Nicholas Fairfax.
Read Effects of disruption in decision making: Considering the use of evolving artificial intelligence in the context of ongoing supply chain disruption and From supply chain to integrated value chain: Re-envisioning counterparty relationships in the context of AI and the convergence of disruption, both in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement.
From 2002 to 2022, Anthony held senior roles at Dun & Bradstreet, including Leader of Global Data Strategy, Leader of Global DUNSRight Linkage and Matching, and Senior Vice President and Chief Data Scientist. He led a team of senior data scientists expanding the discovery, curation, and synthesis of commercial data. Between 2022 and 2025, he remained a Senior Advisor. Between 2014 and 2022, he also sat on the board of Dun & Bradstreet S.A. Sociedad de Información Crediticia in Mexico.
He is the primary inventor on 17 patents covering business identity resolution, multilingual matching, and counterparty relationship discovery, many granted across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. They include Enhancement of Multi-Lingual Business Indicia Through Curation and Synthesis of Transliteration, Translation and Graphemic Insight and System and Method for Searching and Matching Data Having Ideogrammatic Content.
In government and policy circles, Anthony briefed the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and contributed to three Reports to the President, on Big Data Analytics (2016), Emerging Technologies Strategic Vision (2017), and Internet and Communications Resilience (2017). He has advised state Chief Data Officers, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and members of the Canadian Government.
From 2021 to 2022, he was a commissioner on the Atlantic Council’s Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data. In 2022, he presented Detecting Disruption in Closed Systems, a GeoTech Center report produced with Dun & Bradstreet. He is a member of the OECD.AI Network of Experts, working on implementing trustworthy AI.
At his alma mater, Montclair State University, Anthony was Interim Director of the School of Computing from September 2025 to January 2026. He chairs the College of Science and Mathematics Advisory Board, is a founding member of the Computer Science Advisory Board, and sits on the School of Computing Industry Advisory Council. Between 2018 and 2022, he advised the Business Intelligence and Analytics master’s program at Stevens Institute of Technology. From 1998 to 2001, he was an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University.
Anthony is a frequent keynote speaker and a recurring CXOTalk guest. He gave the keynote Teaching Adolescent AI to Think Like a First Grader at the TAUS Massively Multilingual AI Conference 2024, spoke at ICAP CRIF’s 14th Credit Risk Management Conference in Bucharest, and has spoken at the World Internet Conference and the China Development Forum.
Watch AI Misadventures and the Adversarial Economy and Escape AI Quicksand: Data Misuse, Misadventures, and Bad Intent. Listen to Implementing Trustworthy AI and Artificial Intelligence and its IQ with Dr Anthony Scriffignano. Read his Contributions on TechTarget.
Earlier, Anthony was a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting between 1996 and 2001, Corporate Controller and IT leader at Harrison Alloys between 1987 and 1996, and a computer analyst and developer at Tower Cranes of America between 1979 and 1987.
He earned his B.A. in 1982 and M.A. in Computer Science in 1985 from Montclair State University, and his MBA in 1990 from Columbia Business School, where he received the Jack N. Popper Award for Achievement. He earned his PhD in Leadership and Change in 2010 from Antioch University with the dissertation Strategic Asymmetric Multicultural Alliances in Business. He holds a lifetime CPIM designation from the Association for Supply Chain Management.
The U.S. Chief Data Officer of the Year 2018 award was presented by our David Mathison, founder of the CDO Club, after Anthony’s keynote at the NYC CDO Summit at Columbia University. He also received Montclair State’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2015 and was a GovTech Connects Accelerate 125 honoree in 2025. Since 1980, he has volunteered as an EMT with the West Essex First Aid Squad, serving as president and training officer, and in 2020 he received the New Jersey State First Aid Council’s 40-Year Lifetime Service Award.
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