Curt Pederson

Curt Pederson has served as the Vice Provost for Information Services and Chief Information Officer for Oregon State University (OSU) since 1997. In 2004 the responsibilities of Chief Information Officer for the Oregon University System (OUS) were added.

Despite resource restraints, both OSU and OUS have successfully reorganized, improved and expanded many services and continued to support sound information technology infrastructure in support of research, teaching, and learning.

Curt has supported the open source movement through the Open Source Lab and GOSCON, both focal points for collaboration and innovation. The Lab has grown rapidly and currently hosts many of the world’s largest open source projects. GOSCON has become the pre-eminent international government open source conference.

Before joining Oregon’s higher education community, Curt served as Oregon’s first state Chief Information Officer and as Associate Director for the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries and in a variety of positions for Snohomish County PUD, the 12th largest publicly owned electric utility in the United States.