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Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), Chief Financial Officer

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Dr. Temika Edwards is the Chief Financial Officer at the U.S. Department of State (DOS) Intelligence and Research Bureau (INR). At DOS INR, Dr. Edwards is responsible for financial management, strategic planning, and enterprise risk management. She also serves as the chief financial advisor to INR's senior leaders, leads the budget/strategic planning and risk management team, responsible for managing the budget and introducing improvements in the bureau's financial, risk and strategic planning components to improve processes, internal controls, and data-driven decision-making to steward taxpayer funds more effectively and efficiently. This included establishing a bureau-wide ERM program, developing a risk governance structure at the senior leadership level to ensure appropriate focus and emphasis on the long-term identification and mitigation of strategic risks to the bureau's effectiveness.

She also served as Chief Risk Officer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Inspector General (OIG), where she spearheaded the IG's vision of the first organization-wide plan to integrate ERM, change leadership, strategic planning, and performance. She began her journey in the field of risk management overseeing branch operations at various U.S. banks and solving risk management challenges in the financial services industry. In 2008, she was selected to travel to four municipalities in China - Dalian, Shanghai, Beijing, and Suzhou - and conducted training at banking institutions and universities, sharing best practices to improve the banks' internal operations. In 2009 she transitioned to public service after completing her MBA, joining the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), where she led a series of domestic and international initiatives that ultimately resulted in the establishment of TSA's Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program. After nearly a decade with TSA, she transitioned to the oversight community, at the Department of Homeland Security, OIG, where she served as Director of Policy, Strategy and Risk. In this role, Dr. Edwards established the first community-wide ERM working group and served as co-chair of the interagency group and her expertise is recognized across the oversight community for nearly 6 years. She earned a ERM certificate from George Washington University, Chief Risk Officer certification from George Mason University, a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership from North Central University, Master's in Business Administration from Meridith College, and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from North Carolina Central University.