Klara Jelinkova (University of Chicago)

Klara Jelinkova is the Associate Vice President and Chief Information Technology Officer at the University of Chicago. As CITO, Klara responsible for strategic IT issues ranging from policy and resource allocation to protocol and organization. She represents the University's information technology interests regionally and nationally. IT Services, the University's principal information technology organization, reports to the CITO.

Prior to coming to University of Chicago Klara served as the Assistant VP of Shared Services and Infrastructure at Duke University. Her responsibilities included identity management technologies, collaborative services, research infrastructure support and infrastructure services.

Prior to Duke, Klara spent 10 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her last position at UW was Assistant Director of Systems Engineering and Senior Strategist for Research Computing. At UW, Klara directed the implementation of enterprise wide infrastructure services and led several process improvement efforts based on the ITIL model. She also helped to frame research computing strategy for the UW central IT organization. Prior to UW Klara worked at several software companies including Software Publishing Corporation.

Klara serves on the Educause Campus CyberInfrastructure Steering Committee, Internet2 Standing Committee on International Strategy and is an active member of several regional and national higher education organizations. She also serves on several industry advisory boards.