Eric Roche

Eric Roche serves as the Executive Director of Data Governance and Quality Assurance at Houston ISD since September 2025. Prior experience includes serving as a Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury from March 2023 to September 2025 and as a Budget Officer for the City of Pearland, Texas, from July 2020 to March 2023. Previously, Eric held the position of Chief Data Officer for the City of Kansas City, MO, from June 2013 to July 2020, where responsibilities included overseeing OpenData KC and managing the KCStat program. Eric's career began as a Budget Intern in the Cookingham-Noll Management Fellow program at the City of Olathe from June 2012 to June 2013, and earlier, involvement with the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University included planning and executing facilitation efforts for policy-making. Eric holds a Master of Public Administration from The University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government from Colorado State University.