Mike Wetklow
Mike Wetklow is a financial management and risk expert with over 30 years of public service experience, including 17 years as a federal senior executive. He has led major transformations in financial management, audit readiness, and risk governance across key U.S. agencies, including DHS, OMB, NSF, and the IRS. Mike helped establish DHS’s first clean audit opinion, shaped federal Enterprise Risk Management policy through OMB Circular A-123, and advanced innovation at NSF with fintech and AI initiatives.
At the IRS, he served as Chief Risk Officer, overseeing a $12B budget and ensuring compliance with AI governance standards. He holds an MS in Data Science from the University of Virginia and teaches accounting and data analytics at George Mason University, where he is passionate about developing the next generation of data-literate finance professionals.