And whether they deliver on them is rarely measured.
Democratic accountability depends on the public being able to judge officials by what they accomplish in office. PolicyLogic tracks and assesses how effectively elected officials and government agencies deliver on their stated goals and commitments, applying the same published methodology, regardless of party.
PolicyLogic is an independent, nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks the public commitments and agendas of elected officials and government agencies. The record of what they actually accomplish is publicly available, but dispersed across many sources and difficult to compile and review.
Each commitment is analyzed against its documented outcome, and the result is published with every source referenced. Officials and institutions are assessed only against commitments they themselves stated. The methodology behind the analysis is published as well, along with any contested results and whether those challenges led to changes in an assessment.
Anna Andersen Rolsma is the Founder and Executive Director of PolicyLogic and serves on its Board of Directors. She has worked for over a decade in emerging-technology programs across the federal government, venture development, and international markets. At FedTech she led federal technology commercialization programs, including Army xTech and SBIR accelerator cohorts for companies working in national security, cybersecurity, and AI. At Good Machine Studio, a Schmidt Futures–backed venture studio, she led the growth of mission-driven startups solving social and environmental problems. Her advisory work extends to early-stage ventures and government-funded technology programs across the United States and Europe. She holds a Master of International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), with a focus on emerging technology, and a certificate in AI Governance from BlueDot Impact.
Her prior work highlighted how often program goals fail to translate into delivered policy results. No consolidated or consistent way existed to track what officials and agencies accomplish, so she designed PolicyLogic’s methodology and built its analytical pipeline to document each commitment from statement to outcome and increase visibility into what government delivers. Each assessment is published with its sources so it can be tracked, validated, or challenged.
LinkedInGeoff Odlum is a global security consultant and former U.S. diplomat with 28 years of experience in national security, international relations, and interagency policymaking. He served at the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service Officer from 1989 to 2018, with assignments in London, Algiers, Vienna, Istanbul, Baghdad, Kabul, and Washington, working on European and Middle East security, nuclear nonproliferation, counterterrorism, and energy geopolitics. He directed two offices of more than 30 staff, negotiated several nuclear security agreements, and represented the State Department at global summits, ministerial events, and UN and multilateral organizations.
Since retiring in 2018, Geoff has led Odlum Global Strategies, which advises government and commercial clients on national security technologies. He also serves as a Senior Adjunct at the RAND Corporation supporting its geopolitical forecasting initiative, as a Partnership Advisor to FedTech designing and running international dual-use technology accelerators, and as a board member at Coalescion, a woman-owned nonprofit running State Department-funded foreign assistance programs. He holds degrees from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the National War College. His experience assessing policy and negotiation outcomes, including his current work in structured geopolitical forecasting, lends both methodological rigor and institutional grounding to PolicyLogic's nonpartisan mission.
LinkedInSemmi Pasha previously served as a Financial Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the regulator and supervisor of nationally chartered banks. He earned his doctorate in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), specializing in international economics; his doctoral thesis, Essays on Covid and Capital, examined Covid-19's impact on international banking and capital markets. He also holds a master's degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In addition to his economics training, he studied machine learning and signal processing at Johns Hopkins and holds a graduate certificate in electrical and computer engineering, a technical foundation for his work on AI and economic policy. His combined expertise in quantitative analysis and machine learning supports PolicyLogic's technical and analytical work.
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