Inspector General Lucy Lang oversees investigations into corruption, fraud, and abuse in New York State government. Lang previously served as Director of the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College, a national criminal justice organization. She served as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, where she prosecuted violent crimes including homicides, and served as Special Counsel for Policy and Projects, creating a first-of-its-kind college class for incarcerated students and prosecutors to develop policy together, now a national model.

Lang is a Presidential Leadership Scholar, a member of the Council on Criminal Justice, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has served on the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and served on many New York State Bar Association task forces. She has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, the New York Daily News, and many others. Lang is the author of “March On!,” a children’s book about the 1915 Women’s March for Suffrage in New York City. Lang was recently recognized on City and State’s Law Power 100 list for her unwavering commitment to protecting New York’s most vulnerable.

Lang is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia Law School, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gender and Law and has served as a Lecturer-in-Law, and is a graduate of the Executive Public Leaders Programme at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.