Chris Belasco is the Senior Manager, Digital Services and Chief Data Officer for the City of Pittsburgh in the Department of Innovation and Performance, where he manages analytic, data engineering, data governance, open data, software development, and process improvement efforts to improve decisions about City operations and planning. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

Previously he ran a unit at the University of Pittsburgh that conducted large impact evaluations on democracy and governance foreign assistance for the United States Agency for International Development. Chris received his PhD in Public and International Affairs, Master of Public and International Affairs, BS in Information Science, and BA in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh. He is an Advisory Board member for the Hub for Data Science and AI Leadership (HAIL) at the University of Pittsburgh.
Chris was named the 2024 Rising Star by the Pittsburgh Technology Council at the CIO of the Year event and helped steer the City to Gold Certification from What Works Cities.