The title CDO started out as a joke

"The title'Chief Data Officer' started out as a joke!", says Usama Fayyad -the world's first CDO- and continues; "Now it became a serious thing, I guess." IADSS Co-founder Dr. Usama Fayyad was interviewed by Kate Strachnyi after his keynote speech at the ODSC 2019 East event. An important part of this funny interview was about the evolution of the role "Chief Data Officer" and the future of it in driving data literacy and culture in companies. Kate Strachnyi: You were the first Chief Data Officer at Yahoo, and more recently, you were the Global Chief Data Officer at Barclays. Can you tell us about how these CDO role has come about and how it has evolved?