Anita Carleton is an Executive Leadership Team Member and Division Director of the Software Solutions Division at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, with more than 35 years of technical and senior leadership experience in the software engineering industry. Carleton has leadership and operating responsibility for a diverse staff of more than 160 researchers, expert developers, and domain experts advancing software engineering through a $60 million research and development portfolio. She leads the software engineering research, development, and transition strategy for the Software Engineering Institute. Carleton has most recently led a national study engaging the global software engineering community to define a national agenda for software engineering research and development for the next decade titled Architecting the Future of Software Engineering: A National Agenda for Software Engineering Research & Development.  Her seminal research in applying statistical process control techniques to the U.S. Space Shuttle software data led to Carleton’s co-authored book Measuring the Software Process: Statistical Process Control for Software Process Improvement, published by Addison-Wesley Professional. Carleton received her bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and her MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was the recipient of the MIT Sloan Leadership Fellowship. Carleton serves on the IEEE Software Advisory Board and is an IEEE Fellow. She recently served as guest editor for two IEEE Software Special Issues: “The Future of Software Engineering” and “The AI Effect: Working at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.”  She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her technical and leadership contributions in software engineering including from The Journal of the Quality Assurance Institute for her leadership in software measurement and from Dr. Barry Boehm, member of the SEI’s board of visitors, for her leadership in defining the SEI Core Measures and a measurement program to facilitate data-driven decision-making for the U.S. Department of Defense. Carleton is a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. and serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania.