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Appendix C
Biographical Sketches of Panel Members
Alicia Carriquiry (Chair) is distinguished professor of liberal arts and sci-
ences, professor of statistics, and director of graduate education at Iowa
State University. Her research is in applications of statistics in human nu-
trition, bioinformatics, and traffic safety. She has published more than 70
peer-reviewed articles in areas of statistics, economics, nutrition, bioinfor-
matics, mathematics, and animal genetics. She is associate editor of the An-
nals of Applied Statistics and Editor of StatProb, an electronic encyclopedia
of statistics and probability. She is an elected member of the International
Statistical Institute, a fellow of both the American Statistical Association
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a national associate of
the National Research Council. She has served as vice president of the
American Statistical Association, president of the International Society for
Bayesian Analysis, member of the Executive Committee of the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics, and member of the Board of Trustees of the
National Institute of Statistical Sciences. She received an M.Sc. in animal
science from the University of Illinois and an M.Sc. in statistics and Ph.D.
in statistics and animal genetics from Iowa State University.
David L. Banks is a professor of the practice of statistics at Duke Univer-
sity. Previously, he worked in three federal agencies: the National Institute
of Science and Technology, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. His research centers on applied
Bayesian statistics, including network models, problems in transportation
statistics, adversarial risk analysis, metabolomics, and agent-based models.
He is a past editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association
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and currently editor of Statistics, Politics and Policy. He has a Ph.D. in
statistics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Peter Brownell is an associate social scientist at RAND Corporation. Prior
to joining RAND, he was a visiting research fellow at the Center for U.S.–
Mexican Studies and a guest scholar at the Center for Comparative Immi-
gration Studies, both at University of California, San Diego. His primary
research interest has been on immigrants and immigration, with a particular
focus on migration between Mexico and the United States. Past projects
have addressed Mexican immigrants’ wages in the United States, the role
of U.S. policy in structuring immigrants’ labor market outcomes and deci-
sions regarding migration and settlement, the effects of the recent recession
on return migration flows to Mexico, and other topics concerning Hispanic
immigration to the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the
University of California, Berkeley.
Stephen E. Fienberg is Maurice Falk university professor of statistics and
social science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Depart-
ment, and the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University. His principal
research interests lie in the development of statistical methodology, espe-
cially for problems involving categorical variables. His recent research has
focused on approaches appropriate for disclosure limitation in multidimen-
sional tables and their relationship with bounds for table entries; estimat-
ing the size of populations, especially in the context of census taking; and
Bayesian approaches to the analysis of contingency tables. He is an elected
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Acad-
emy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of Canada. He is a member of the
Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University.
Mark S. Handcock is a professor of statistics at the University of Califor-
nia, Los Angeles, where he is also an affiliate of the California Center for
Population Research. He previously taught at the University of Washington,
Pennsylvania State University, and New York University. His work focuses
on the development of statistical models for the analysis of social network
data, spatial processes, and longitudinal data arising in labor economics.
His research involves methodological development motivated largely by
questions from the social sciences and demography. Recent research has fo-
cused on survey sampling techniques and missing data methods, especially
for network data. He also works in the fields of distributional comparisons,
environmental statistics, spatial statistics, and inference for stochastic pro-
cesses. He served as associate editor of Annals of Applied Statistics, Journal
of the American Statistical Association, and is a fellow of the American Sta-
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tistical Association. He holds a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of
Western Australia and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Chicago.
Gordon Hanson is the Pacific Economic Cooperation chair in international
economic relations at the University of California, San Diego, as well as
director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies. He holds fac-
ulty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
and the Department of Economics. He previously was on the economics
faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and the University of
Texas (1992-1998). He specializes in the economics of international trade,
international migration, and foreign direct investment. His current research
examines the international migration of skilled labor, how border enforce-
ment affects illegal immigration, the impact of imports from China on the
U.S. labor market, and the global determinants of comparative advantage.
He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. He has an A.B.
in economics from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in economics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Virginia Lesser is a professor and chair in the Department of Statistics and
director of the Survey Research Center at Oregon State University. Her
research interests are in sampling, survey methodology, environmental sta-
tistics, and applied statistics. She has written on non-sampling error, the ef-
fects of item and unit non-response on non-response error, and multi-mode
surveys. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected
member of the International Statistical Institute, and member of the Techni-
cal Advisory Committee for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She has a Ph.D.
in public health and biostatistics from the University of North Carolina.
Pia Orrenius is assistant vice president and senior economist at the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas. As an officer in the regional group, she analyzes
the regional economy, manages the Texas Business Outlook Surveys, and
serves as editor of Southwest Economy, a publication of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of
Mexico–U.S. migration, unauthorized immigration, and U.S. immigration
policy. She is a fellow of the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern
Methodist University and a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor in
Bonn, Germany. She is also an adjunct professor in the executive M.B.A.
program at Baylor University (Dallas campus). During the 2004-2005 aca-
demic year, she was a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advis-
ers in the Executive Office of the President, where she advised the Bush
administration on labor, health, and immigration issues. She holds a Ph.D.
in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Jeffrey S. Passel is a senior demographer at the Urban Institute. He previ-
ously served as principal research associate at the Urban Institute’s Labor,
Human Services, and Population Center. His expertise is immigration to
the United States and the demography of racial and ethnic groups, and
he has authored numerous studies on immigrant populations in America,
undocumented immigration, the economic and fiscal impact of the foreign
born, and the impact of welfare reform on immigrant populations. He holds
a Ph.D. in social relations from Johns Hopkins University.
Fernando Riosmena is an assistant professor in the Geography Depart-
ment and the Population Program of the Institute of Behavioral Science at
the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research investigates how demo-
graphic processes are associated with the spatial and social mobility, well-
being, and development in Latin American societies and with immigrant
communities in the United States from those societies. His main research
areas are immigrant health throughout different stages of the migration
process and the role of U.S. immigration policy and social, economic, and
environmental conditions in sending communities on the dynamics of mi-
gration between Latin America and the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in
demography from the University of Pennsylvania.
Silvia Elena Giorguli Saucedo is director of the Center for Demographic,
Urban, and Environmental Studies at El Colegio de Mexico. She has also
taught at El Colegio de Mexico, the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
Mexico, and the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico. Her research
focuses on adolescents and family structure, international migration, and
the impact of population change in Mexico. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology
from Brown University.
