Debra D’Agostino is the Chief Capability Officer at Oxford Economics, overseeing the company’s global human resources team as well as people-focused initiatives to support digital transformation, innovation and the adoption of best practices.

Based in New York, Debra joined Oxford Economics in 2011 to launch the company’s Thought Leadership division, which she continues to oversee as Managing Director. She leads a global team of editors, researchers and analysts who conduct ground-breaking research programs in partnership with the world’s most forward-looking organizations, on topics ranging from business transformation, emerging technology, diversity and inclusion, talent and leadership to risk management and corporate finance.

She also serves as Co-Managing Director for Oxford Economics USA, and is a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

Debra joined the firm from the Economist Intelligence Unit, the research arm of the Economist Group, where she led the company’s business research department for the Americas. Prior to the EIU, she served as an editor and writer at CIO Insight, the award-winning business and technology strategy journal she helped launch at Ziff Davis Media in 2001.

She holds a bachelor of science in journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.