Liat Krawczyk is a Senior Advisor for Workforce and Child Care Strategy at the U.S. Department of Commerce CHIPS Program Office. Previously, Liat was a VP at the NYC Economic Development Corporation, where she headed its Economic Mobility portfolio, including emerging tech, green economy and life science industry workforce strategy. There, she also founded the Childcare Innovation Lab, which led city efforts to research childcare as economic infrastructure and catalyzed public and private sector care economy innovations, including by developing the FamTech sector.
Liat holds over a dozen years of strategy and operations experience in economic development and emerging tech. Her expertise lies at the intersection of innovation, technology, policy, and social impact, where she has made contributions to building companies and inclusive innovation ecosystems in various sectors, such as cybersecurity; care economy, including FamTech; infrastructure (green, food, water) tech; and PropTech/FinTech data intelligence. Liat is also co-founder of The Jeneba Project, a nonprofit that runs an excellence high school for girls in Sierra Leone and is the director of several documentary films.