Appendix D
Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Katharine G. Abraham (Chair) is professor of economics and survey methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park. As a labor economist, her work has focused on the effects of labor market institutions on firm and worker behavior, labor market adjustment over the business cycle, and the measurement of economic activity. Previously, she served on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2011 to 2013 and as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993 to 2001. She is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and of the American Statistical Association. She has a B.S. in economics from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Mary Batcher is a founding partner in BDS Data Analytics, LLC, a statistical consulting company. Previously, she held positions at Ernst & Young, where she was the national tax director of statistics and sampling. Her work has focused on using design-based and model-based sampling and estimation to test and improve new and existing systems, to identify and estimate over-billings in federal health care programs, and to quantify corporate income tax deductions and credits. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She has a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Marie Brodeur recently retired from Statistics Canada, where she was the director general of the Industry Statistics Branch. In that position, she managed the development of the integrated business statistics project, a major transformational infrastructure project that covered more than 80 percent
of business surveys in Canada. She has worked extensively in industrial statistics, survey methodology, international cooperation, and management. She has a master’s degree in mathematics from Montreal University and a bachelor’s degree in statistics from Laval University.
Constance F. Citro (Senior Scholar) is on the staff of the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT), where she previously served as its director and as a senior study director. Prior to joining CNSTAT, she held positions at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and at Data Use and Access Laboratories, Inc. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She is a recipient of the ASA’s Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics and Survey Methodology’s Waksberg Award in Survey Methodology. She has a B.A. in political science from the University of Rochester and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.
Cynthia Z.F. Clark is a former administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she oversaw the agency’s efforts to collect and disseminate data on every facet of U.S. agriculture. For her work in leading a transformation of how the agency operates, she received the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award. Previously, she directed research and survey methodology for the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics and at the U.S. Census Bureau. Since retiring from NASS, she has continued her professional activities, including as vice president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians and as a member of the Council on Food and Agriculture Economics and the Statistics Canada Methodology Advisory Committee. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. She has a Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University, where she received its Distinguished Alumni Award.
William C. Dunkelberg is chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Businesses. His work concentrates on small business, entrepreneurship, consumer behavior and consumer credit, and government policy. Previously, he served on the Census Advisory Committee for two terms, and at the University of Michigan he co-produced the Annual Survey of Consumer Finances for several years. He is a past president and a fellow of the National Association of Business Economists. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Kaye Husbands Fealing is chair of the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She specializes in the science of science and innova-
tion policy, underrepresentation of women and minorities in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines and occupations, and international trade policy impacts on industry structure and firm behavior. Previously, she held positions in the Center for Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the University of Minnesota, at Williams College, and as the inaugural program director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program at the U.S. National Science Foundation. She serves on the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), on the advisory council of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and on the council of Canadian Academies Steering Committee on Subnational Science Policy. She is a distinguished fellow of AAAS. She has a B.A. in mathematics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Robert E. Hall is a senior fellow at Hoover Institution and a professor of economics at Stanford University. As an applied economist, his interests have focused on employment, technology, competition, and economic policy in the aggregate economy and in particular markets. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association and served as its president, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, and Society of Labor Economists. He has advised a number of government agencies on national economic policy, including the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, and Congressional Budget Office. He has a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nancy J. Kirkendall (Senior Program Officer) is on the staff of the Committee on National Statistics. Previously, she served as director of the Statistics and Methods Group of the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and a member of EIA’s senior staff. She also served as senior mathematical statistician in the Statistical Policy Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, serving as the desk officer for the U.S. Census Bureau and chair of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology. She is a fellow and past vice president of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and a past president of the Washington Statistical Society. She is a recipient of ASA’s Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics and of its Founder’s Award. She has a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from the George Washington University.
Steven Landefeld is a distinguished visiting professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and consultant to the United Nations. Previously, he served as director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the U.S. Department of
Commerce, and he is a recipient of the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award. He is also the recipient of recognition and awards from the National Association for Business Economics, American Society for Public Administration, International Statistical Institute, Society of American Business Writers and Editors, Coalition of Service Industries, American Statistical Association, and U.S. Department of Commerce. He has served as chair and member of numerous working groups and committees of the United Nations, the OECD, and other international and national committees. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
David Marker is associate director and senior statistician at Westat. His work focuses on data collection, survey research, sampling methodology, survey response rates, survey evaluation, data analysis, imputation, modeling, project management, quality control and improvement, and small-area statistics. His work has encompassed both classical and Bayesian approaches to survey sampling. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan.
Joan G. Naymark is founder and executive director of Minnesotans for the American Community Survey and 2020 Census (MACS 2020). The grass-tops coalition is composed of a broad base of organizations from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in support of evidence-based policy, investment, and decision making. Previously, she was with Target Corporation as director of market analytics and planning where she was responsible for strategic, analytic, and geospatial research in support of capital investment. She previously served as a member of the advisory committee for the U.S. census, representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and she chaired the North American Research Task Force for the International Council of Shopping Centers. She is a member of the Population Association of America. She has an M.A. in sociology/demography from Western Washington University.
Kristen Olson is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her areas of specialization include survey methodology, nonresponse error, questionnaire design, within-household coverage in self-administered surveys, measurement error, and interviewer effects. She has a B.A. in mathematical methods in the social sciences and sociology from Northwestern University, an M.S. in survey methodology from the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Ph.D. in survey methodology from the University of Michigan.
Ger Snijkers is a senior researcher and an advisor in business survey data collection methodology at Statistics Netherlands, where he previously held various research and project management positions, both for social and business surveys. He has done extensive work on pretesting and was instrumental in the establishment of the questionnaire pretesting unit at Statistics Netherlands. Previously, he held the position of professor of business survey methodology at Utrecht University. He was a member of the program committee of the 2016 International Conference on Establishment Surveys. He has a Ph.D. with distinction in political sciences, specializing in social science methodology, from the University of Amsterdam.
Chad Syverson is the J. Baum Harris professor of economics at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, and he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research spans several topics in business economics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. He is the recipient of multiple awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation. He previously served as chair of the Chicago Census Research Data Center Board. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Richard Valliant is research professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and at the Joint Program for Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously he was an associate director at Westat and a mathematical statistician with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. His work has focused on survey sampling, estimation theory, and statistical computing, as well as applied work in survey estimation and sample design on a variety of establishment and household surveys. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has Ph.D. in biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University.
Glenn D. White, Jr. (Study Director) is a senior program officer at the Committee on National Statistics. Previously, he was a senior manager at Ernst & Young’s quantitative economic and statistics practice where he established and directed a quantitative survey practice. His primary responsibilities as practice leader included general statistical consulting with an emphasis on survey and web data collection. He also previously was a senior mathematical statistician at the Internal Revenue Service and a supervisory mathematical statistician at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. He has a B.A. in mathematics and biology from the University of San Diego and an M.S. in biostatistics from the University of Vermont.
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