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Daniel Schuman founded the Schuman Fund LLC in 2025. He serves as the Executive Director and founder of the American Governance Institute, a non-profit organization focused on strengthening the institutions of American government. He served as Chair of the inaugural Open Government Federal Advisory Committee from fall 2024 to spring 2025. 

 

Daniel is deeply involved in efforts to rebuild our democracy, which include: strengthening mechanisms for federal governmental accountability, transparency, and reform; reforming Congress; providing appropriate checks on the Executive branch, including expanded transparency and accountability; modernizing government technology for improved responsiveness, accountability, and efficiency; professionalizing federal employees; improving government ethics processes; empowering civil society; and ensuring that the people’s voices can be heard. 

 

Daniel is a nationally recognized expert on the federal government. He is known in particular for his expertise with respect to government accountability and transparency, the appropriations process, Legislative branch operations, data and technology, and congressional rules and procedures. 

 

Daniel is the founder and an editor of the First Branch Forecast, a weekly newsletter that covers government accountability and transparency, with a focus on Congress and its interactions with the Executive branch. He is responsible for the creation or improvement of many federal government transparency and accountability websites, and created EveryCRSReport.com, containing 20,000 Congressional Research Service Reports. Daniel also writes a weekly newsletter for GovTrack.us.

 

He is a co-founder of the Congressional Data Coalition, co-directs the Advisory Committee on Transparency, and coordinates the OpenGov Roundtable. Daniel is a senior fellow with the Data Foundation. He routinely testifies before Congress on government accountability, transparency, modernization, and operations, and his work has been covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, Roll Call, Politico, FedScoop, Wired, The Hill, C-SPAN, Federal News Radio, and other news outlets. 

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He previously worked as Policy Director with Demand Progress Action / Education Fund, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Sunlight Foundation, the Constitution Project, the American Constitution Society, as a Legislative Attorney with the Congressional Research Service, and on Capitol Hill. Daniel graduated from Emory University School of Law in 2006 and Emory College in 1999.