technocrat

Noun

technocrat (plural technocrats)

1. An advocate of technocracy.
2. An expert in some technology, especially one in a managerial or administrative role.
   • Another by now trusted technocrat, d'Aguesseau, returned as Chancellor, initiating down to his death in 1751 landmark judicial reforms.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 87
   • Would the site’s community of decentralized, uncompensated editors continue to govern it according to its principles of openness, transparency, and neutrality, or would a handful of highly paid NGO technocrats re-orient Wikipedia toward endorsing and promoting the ever-shifting currents of the...2024 August 5, Ashley Rindsberg, “How the Regime Captured Wikipedia”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2025
3. A person who makes decisions based solely on technical information and not personal or public opinion.
   • We are technocrats who focus on efficiency. We get little training about the ends of economics, on the meaning of well-being—welfare economics has long since vanished from the curriculum—or on what philosophers say about equality.2024 March, Angus Deaton, “Rethinking My Economics”, in F&D Magazine, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2024