NORC's Advisory Group has been established to provide guidance on a number of technical and operational aspects of constructing and maintaining the Data Enclave. This group consists of experts with a wide variety of expertise in areas related to the needs of the Data Enclave, including data specific expertise, confidentiality research, statistical protection, data archiving, data dissemination, and the uses of restricted microdata.
John Abowd, Cornell University. (john.Abowd@cornell.edu). John M. Abowd is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER), Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the United States Census Bureau, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, Cambridge, MA), and Research Affiliate at the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST, Paris, France). John has published articles in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and other major economic and statistics journals. Professor Abowd was on the faculty at Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before coming to Cornell. Professor Abowd is currently the Principal Investigator for five multiyear grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Census Bureau, the National Institute on Aging, and the Russel Sage Foundation.
James Adams, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (adamsj@rpi.edu). James D. Adams is Professor of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. In addition he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to joining Rensselaer he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Florida. He has also held visiting appointments at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago. He recently served on the Telecommunications R&D Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC and currently serves in an advisory capacity to the Advanced Technology Program of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. He received a BA in economics from the University of New Mexico in 1967 and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1976. Dr. Adams has published numerous articles on the economics of technical change, with emphasis on the causes and consequences of industrial and academic research and development, as well as numerous articles in the fields of labor and public economics.
George T. Duncan, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University. (gd17+@andrew.cmu.edu). Dr. Duncan is Professor of Statistics in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2005 he was the Lord Simon Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. He is a Visiting Faculty at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He served on the faculty of the University of California, Davis (1970-1974), and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines (1965-1967), teaching at Mindanao State University. His research has been extensively funded by NSF and he has more than seventy publications in such journals as Statistical Science, Management Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica, and Psychometrika. He chaired the Panel on Confidentiality and Data Access of the National Academy of Sciences (1989-1993), resulting in the book, Private Lives and Public Policies: Confidentiality and Accessibility of Government Statistics. He also chaired the American Statistical Association's Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1996 he was elected Pittsburgh Statistician of the Year by the American Statistical Association. He has been editor of the Theory and Methods Section of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. He is currently co-authoring a book on statistical confidentiality.
Olivier Dupriez, World Bank. (odupriez@worldbank.org). Olivier Dupriez is a Senior Statistician/Economic with the World Bank Development Data Group. It was with this organization that Olivier oversaw the production of the Microdata Management Toolkit, which is the underlying documentation tool used by the Data Enclave. Olivier has proven the quality of the Toolkit's technology, as he has used it in his management of World Bank data collected in the Third World. He has valued expertise in the area of improving the accessibility and usability of microdata.
Nick Greenia, Internal Revenue Service (nicholas.H.Greenia@irs.gov). Nick Greenia is the Interagency Liaison for the Statistics of Income Division at the Internal Revenue Service. He is an expert in safeguarding federal tax information confidentiality as well an in the area of technical re-identification threats. He was involved in developing the first reliable statistical file for the Department of Labor in plan year 1997 and has also contributed to the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics project (LEHD) Having written several publications, including "The Release of IRS Data: Challenges and New Approaches", Mr. Greenia serves as an associate editor of The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.
Myron Gutmann, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (gutmann@umich.edu). Prior to joining the Michigan faculty in August of 2001, Dr. Gutmann was Professor of History and Geography and Director of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Gutmann received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976, and has broad interests in interdisciplinary historical research, especially health, population, economy, and the environment. As Director of ICPSR, he is a leader in the archiving and dissemination of electronic research materials related to society, population, and health. Gutmann has served as chair of the Social Sciences, Nursing, Epidemiology and Methods-3 Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, and as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, as well as other national advisory committees and editorial boards. He is currently President of the Consortium of Social Science Associations, an advocacy organization supported by more than 100 professional associations, scientific societies, universities and research institutions.
Frank Howell, Mississippi State University. (howell@soc.msstate.edu). Frank M. Howell is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Spatial Analysis Laboratory at Mississippi State University. He was appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Advisory Committee on Agricultural Statistics in 2006. Frank has a long-standing interest in the progressive use of high technology in social research methods, having pioneered the use of international computer networks for professional communication in the 1980s and GIS, remote sensing, and spatial statistics in sociology during the 1990s. He has published widely in the social sciences and focuses on the link between the economy and pollution, changing institutional spheres of race relations, and spatial demography. Professor Howell is currently studying social policy elements of biomass crop production in the U.S., funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Janet Norwood, The Conference Board. (janetnor@aol.com). Janet L. Norwood serves as Counselor at the New York Conference Board. She chairs two congressionally mandated studies -- a National Academy of Sciences review of Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Programs as well as an Academy of Public Administration study on the extent of the off-shoring of employment and its economic and social effects. She has served on several corporate and non-profit boards and currently is on the Board of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. Norwood is a past President and Fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member and past Vice President of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists and of the National Academy of Public Administration, former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. She is a past President of the Cosmos Club and of the Consortium of Social Science Associations.
Felix Ritchie, Economic Adviser at the UK Office for National Statistics. (felix.ritchie@ons.gov.uk). Felix Ritchie created and runs ONS' secure research facility, the Virtual Microdata Laboratory. His areas of expertise are the use of large complex data sets, data linking, statistical disclosure control, and the management of research facilities. Other areas of research include labour and industrial economics, low pay, the measurement of government activity, and panel data econometrics. Dr Ritchie has also been a key player behind the development of ONS' links with academics (mainly but not exclusively economists), particularly in the VML programme of seminars, workshops and conferences.
Chris Rusbridge, Digital Curation Centre. (crusbrid@staffmail.ed.ac.uk). Chris Rusbridge is Director of the Digital Curation Centre, funded by JISC and the e-Science Core Programme to provide support services, development and research in digital curation and preservation. This follows five years as Director of Information Services at Glasgow University. There his responsibilities included the library and archives, together with IT, MIS, and A/V services. For the previous five years, he was Programme Director of the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), a major digital library R&D Programme. During his tenure at JISC, one of his major interests was preservation of digital materials, the subject of a set of JISC-funded studies, two major international preservation workshops in 1995 and 1999, held at Warwick, and two preservation projects, CEDARS and CAMiLEON, in all of which he played a significant role.
Stephanie Shipp, Senior Analyst for Economics, Energy, and Technology Assessment (sshipp@ida.org). Dr. Stephanie Shipp is a senior research analyst for economics, energy, and technology assessment. Dr. Shipp's primary focus is on evaluation of federal science and technology funding. She is a member of the International Advisory Board for Sweden's Vinnova (Innovation) agency. From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Shipp, a member of the Federal Senior Executive Service, was the Director of the Economic Assessment Office in the Advanced Technology Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In that position she directed economic research and program evaluation, including surveys, benefit-cost studies, and other analyses that examined individual project and overall program performance. Prior to that, Dr. Shipp worked as an economist at the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Federal Reserve Board. Dr. Shipp was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2002 and was the recipient of the ASA Jeanne Griffith Mentoring award in 2007. She received a Masters Degree and Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University with specialties in public finance and demography. She received her Bachelor's Degree in economics from Trinity College, Washington D.C.
Daniel Weinberg, United States Census Bureau (daniel.h.weinberg@census.gov). Daniel H. Weinberg came to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1989 as Chief of the Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division. The division is responsible for housing issues such as homeownership; income, poverty and health insurance statistics; and other reports on economic well-being. Previously, Dr. Weinberg had worked for nine years at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on welfare and poverty research and policy. He is considered one of the nation’s top experts on income and poverty. Dr. Weinberg is a recipient of the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bronze Medal, 1994, and (group) Silver Medal, 2003; a fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1999; a recipient of the Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics, 2002; and of the Service to America Social Services Award, 2002. He currently serves as Treasurer for the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. Dr. Weinberg received his B.S. in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 and his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1975. He taught at Yale University and Tufts University, and worked for four years on housing research at Abt Associates, Inc. before coming to the federal government.
Al Zarate, National Center For Health Statistics. (aoz1@cdc.gov). Al Zarate is a Confidentiality Officer and Assistant Director of Intervention and Examination Studies at the National Center For Health Statistics. Mr. Zarate has expertise on topics of great relevance to the functioning of the Data Enclave, including fundamentals on data confidentiality and access issues among federal agencies. Mr. Zarate has also been a part of of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics' Subcommittee on Privacy and Confidentiality. In his paper "Government Perspective on Data Stewardship for Statistical Data", Al has presented a government perspective on a broad spectrum of ideas and best practices for statistical data collectors to ensure proper stewardship for personal information they collect, process, and disseminate.