The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, policies, and procedures to see whether they comply with the president's policies and coordinates inter-agency policy initiatives.
The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second-oldest continuously operating professional society in the U.S. behind the Massachusetts Medical Society. ASA services statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statistics across many academic areas and applications. The association publishes a variety of journals and sponsors several international conferences every year.
Alice Mitchell Rivlin was an American economist and budget official. She served as the 16th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 1996 to 1999. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve, Rivlin was named director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1996. Prior to that, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Congressional Budget Office and became its founding director from 1975 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party, Rivlin was the first woman to hold either of those posts.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is a non-profit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. that addresses federal budget and fiscal issues. It was founded in 1981 by former United States Representative Robert Giaimo (D-CT) and United States Senator Henry Bellmon (R-OK), and its board of directors includes past heads of the House and Senate Budget Committees, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Government Accountability Office.
In the United States, the federal statistical system (FSS) refers to a decentralized network of federal agencies which produce data and official statistics about the people, economy, natural resources, and infrastructure of the country. It is led by the Chief Statistician of the United States (CSOTUS) and the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy and is composed of 13 principal statistical agencies and 3 recognized statistical units, 24 Statistical Officials, approximately 100 additional Federal statistical programs engaged in statistical activities, and several cross system interagency and advisory bodies.
Margaret E. Martin was an economist and statistician at the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1942 to 1973. She was influential in the development of U.S. economic statistics and became president of the American Statistical Association.
The chief statistician of the United States is a position in the U.S. federal government's Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Chief Statistician is charged with providing coordination, guidance, and oversight for U.S. federal statistical agencies and activities.
Nancy A. Potok is a former American government official who served as the Chief Statistician of the United States from January 2017 to December 2019. She is currently the CEO of NAPx Consulting.
Dorothy Morrow Gilford was an American statistician who headed the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the Office of Naval Research, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences. She was the editor of The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy.
Yvonne Millicent Mahala Bishop was an English-born statistician who spent her working life in America. She wrote a "classic" book on multivariate statistics, and made important studies of the health effects of anesthetics and air pollution. Later in her career, she became the Director of the Office of Statistical Standards in the Energy Information Administration.
Constance ("Connie") F. Citro is an American political scientist and statistician. She is the former director of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and works as a senior scholar for the Committee on National Statistics. She also works as an independent consultant and is currently a member of the project team for the American Statistical Association-George Mason University Project on Assessing the Health of the Principal Federal Statistical Agencies.
Marie Di Mario Wann (1911–1996) was an American statistician and author. She wrote a book about her experiences in post-war Germany, worked as a statistician for several US government agencies, helped found the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association, and led the Caucus for Women in Statistics.
Nancy May Gordon is an American economist and statistician who works for the United States Census Bureau.
Cynthia Zang Facer Clark is an American statistician known for her work improving the quality of data in the federal statistical system, and especially in the National Agricultural Statistics Service. She has also served as the president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics and the Washington Statistical Society. As of 2018 she is executive director of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics.
Stephanie Slepicka Shipp is an American economist and social statistician. She works at the University of Virginia as a research professor in the Social and Decision Analytics Division of the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative.
Mary Katherine Batcher is an American statistician who chairs the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.
Rochelle (Shelly) Wilkie Martinez is an American government statistician.
Susan Schechter Bortner is an American survey statistician, formerly in US Government service and now a researcher at NORC at the University of Chicago, a private nonprofit social research organization.
Karin A. Orvis is a U.S. government official who was appointed to become the Chief Statistician of the United States in May, 2022. She is in charge of the Statistical Policy Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Statistical Policy Directive (SPD) is a requirement by the Office of Management and Budget for Federal statistical agencies in "the design, collection, processing, editing, compilation, storage, analysis, release, and dissemination of statistical information".
