Ivan Peter Fellegi,OC is a Hungarian-Canadian statistician and researcher who was the Chief Statistician of Canada from 1985 to 2008.
The Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program is a two-year training and leadership development program at a United States government agency,administered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM),for advanced degree holders. After completing the program,agencies may convert PMFs to permanent federal civilian employees.
The Trachtenberg School, officially the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (TSPPPA), is the graduate public policy school in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of the George Washington University,in Washington,D.C.
Janet Lippe Norwood was an American statistician and the first female Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) when she was appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. She was reappointed twice by President Reagan. She left the Bureau in 1991 and joined the Urban Institute as a Senior Fellow,a position she held until 1999. She was also appointed as the Chair of the Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation,first by President George H. W. Bush in 1993 and then re-elected by President Bill Clinton. She stepped down from that position in 1996. She received numerous awards including several honorary doctorate degrees from academic institutions,including Harvard University.
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.
Aryness Joy Wickens was an American economist and statistician who served as acting commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and as president of the American Statistical Association,and who helped develop the United States Consumer Price Index.
Emanuel Alexsndrovich Goldenweiser was born in Kiev,on July 31,1883. His father was a prominent member of the Kiev bar. The family was modestly wealthy and cosmopolitan. Upon graduation from the First Kiev Gymnasium in 1902,Emanuel followed his older brother,Alexander (Shura),to the United States. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1903,and MA from Cornell in 1905,and a PhD from Cornell in 1907. His PhD thesis subject was "Russian Immigration to the U.S." He became a U.S. citizen in the same year.
Anil Arora is a Canadian former civil servant who served as the Chief Statistician of Canada from September 19,2016 to March 31,2024. He was the twelfth Chief Statistician since Statistics Canada was founded as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in 1918. He first joined Statistics Canada in 1988 and has since overseen major transformations such as computer-assisted interviewing,online publishing and multi-dimensional output databases,and more recently the migration of the agency's data holdings to the secure cloud. He led the agency during the challenging COVID-19 pandemic as it conducted the 2021 census and enhanced its statistical programs.
Sallie Ann Keller is a statistician and a former president of the American Statistical Association (2006).
Ingrid Christensen Kildegaard was an American statistician and market researcher who worked at the Advertising Research Foundation as a vice president and technical director.
Nancy A. Mathiowetz is an American sociologist and statistician,known for her pioneering combination of cognitive psychology with survey methodology and for her research on poverty and disability.
Joan Raup Rosenblatt was an American statistician who became Director of the Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1976.
Marie Delaney Eldridge was an American statistician. She was director of statistics and analysis at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,a director of the Research Triangle Institute,president of the Washington Statistical Society,and since 1969 a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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.
Shirley Kallek was an American economic statistician known for her work at the United States Census Bureau. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics and of the Washington Statistical Society.
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 of the United States,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.
Lynda Shirley Tepfer Carlson is a retired American statistician,formerly the director of the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics of the National Science Foundation. As director of the center,she led an effort to collect information about college education by including this topic in the American Community Survey of the United States Census Bureau.
