NSF appoints Charles “Chuck” Barber as chief diversity and inclusion officer

NSF has appointed Charles "Chuck" Barber to serve as chief diversity and inclusion officer, a newly created role included in the CHIPS and Science Act. In this role, Barber will serve as NSF's senior advisor responsible for providing vision, strategic leadership and management for ongoing agency programs and new initiatives related to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, or DEIA, in the NSF workplace and the STEM enterprise.

With more than two decades of experience, Barber has led a broad range of diversity efforts, including the development of cultural intelligence capabilities and strategy, organizational leadership, critical data analysis and business transformation initiatives. These efforts have provided world-class human resource and transformational leadership support to a dynamic range of public and private sector clients to include military service members, civilians and their families.

Barber will begin his CDIO appointment Jan 16.