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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 103-110
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Census Bureau and of the National Opinion Research Center, president of the Social Science Research Council, senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and dean at the New School University. His current writing focuses on how to improve race statistics and why that matters and the use of science in policy interests.
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At the National Research Council, he has chaired the Committee on National Statistics, the panel to advise the Census Bureau on alternative methods for conducting the census in the year 2000, the panel to review the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and the panel to assess the 2000 census. From 2000-2004, he was the assistant director for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation.
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From June 1999 to January 2002, he served as the deputy director of criminal justice for New York state, providing oversight and coordination of the state's criminal justice agencies. Prior to his tenure with the New York City Police Department, he served on the director's staff at the National Institute of Justice, the research branch of the U.S.
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He has served on a broad array of National Research Council and Institute of Medicine committees, evaluating scientific evidence arising from the social, behavioral, and biomedical science studies. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.
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He was previously vice president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation, where he managed and conducted research relating to entrepreneurship, and a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He is the co-author of Better Capitalism (Yale University Press, 2012)
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Involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1988, he was coordinating lead author of Working Group II for Chapter 19, "Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change," and a core writer for the Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report.
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He received the American Association of Public Opinion Research's Innovators Award for his work on cognitive aspects of survey methodology. His major research interests are government statistics and the use of statistics and research for public policy decision making.
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He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959.
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