Katherine Wallman

Katherine K. Wallman is an American statistician who was the Chief Statistician of the United States from 1992 to 2017.[1] In that role at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, she provided coordination, guidance, and oversight for the Federal Statistical System of the United States.[2]

Katherine Wallman
Chief Statistician of the United States
In office
November 1992 – January 3, 2017
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded byHermann Habermann
Succeeded byNancy Potok
Personal details
BornNew Jersey, U.S.
EducationWellesley College (BA)

In 1983 Wallman was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[3] She was the president of the American Statistical Association in 1992,[4] and Chairwoman of the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2004-5.[1] She has made several appearances on C-SPAN.[5]

Wallman organized efforts to pass and implement the 2002 CIPSEA law which standardized confidentiality-protection and information-sharing by U.S. federal government statistical agencies.[6]

Works
  • Wallman, Katherine K; Harris-Kojetin, Brian A; U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Implementing the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (PDF), retrieved 2013-12-05

See also

References
  1. "Brief Bio: Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, U.S. Office of Management and Budget" (PDF), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, retrieved 2013-12-05
  2. Wallman, Katherine K. "Statistical Programs of the United States Government" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  3. View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-10-22.
  4. "Katherine K. Wallman's biosketch". The Albany Chapter of The American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  5. "Katherine Wallman - Bio". C-SPAN Video Library. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  6. CIPSEA at 15 Years: Benefits to Federal Statistics—A Seminar in Honor of Katherine K. Wallman at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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