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Ron Jarmin

Dr. Ron S. Jarmin has been the U.S. Census Bureau’s deputy director and chief operating officer since January 2019. He served as acting director from January 2021 to January 2022. He performed the nonexclusive functions and duties of the director from July 2017 to January 2019 and previously served as the associate director for economic programs. Jarmin led the team for the 2017 Economic Census, overseeing a move to 100 percent Internet data collection and leveraging enterprise investments to minimize system, application, and dissemination costs. Economic census data products provide the foundation for key measures of economic performance, including the nation’s gross domestic product. From 2011 to 2016, Jarmin served as assistant director for research and methodology. He oversaw a broad research program in statistics, survey methodology, and economics aimed at improving economic and social measurements within the federal statistical system. Since beginning his career at the Census Bureau in 1992, he has also served as the chief economist, chief of the Center for Economic Studies, and a research economist. Jarmin holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon. An elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, he has published papers in the areas of industrial organization, business dynamics, entrepreneurship, technology and firm performance, urban economics, data access, and statistical disclosure avoidance.

Andrew Johnson

Andrew L. Johnson is a Principle Research Scientist at Amazon. Previously he was a Professor in the Wm Michael Barnes 64’ Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has held visiting faculty positions at Aalto University, Osaka University, Tokyo Tech, and GRIPS. He obtained his B.S. from the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research interests include productivity and efficiency measurement, warehouse operational design, benchmarking, functional estimation and production economics. He is a member of INFORMS, National Eagle Scout Association, and German Club of Virginia Tech.

Bert Kroese

Mr. Kroese holds a PhD (honors) in mathematical statistics from the University of Groningen. Nationally and internationally, he has been especially active in the fields of innovation and environmental-economic statistics. He has chaired the UN Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounting (UNCEEA) for seven years. He has also been co-chair of the Executive Board of the High-Level Group for Modernization of Official Statistics (UNECE). In the context of the European Statistical System, he has been co-chair and deputy chair of a number of innovation related taskforces. In the Netherlands he was member of the strategy team of the Dutch National Artificial Intelligence Coalition and treasurer of ICTU, a large IT service supplier in Dutch government. Before joining the Fund, he worked for 25 years at Statistics Netherlands. He served in various expert, management, and (senior) director roles in the fields of methodology and economic statistics. From 2013 until 2022, he acted as Deputy Director-General and CIO with special focus on and responsibility for IT and Innovation. In 2014 and 2020 (at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic), he was acting Director-General for a short stint. Mr. Kroese is Chief Statistician, Data Officer, and Director of the Statistics Department at the IMF. Chief Statistician, Data Officer, and Director of the Statistics Department.

Léopold Simar

Léopold Simar is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, UCLouvain. He has taught mathematical statistics, multivariate analysis, bootstrap methods in statistics and econometrics at several universities and at the ENSAE, Paris, France. He has been Founder President of the Institute of Statistics at the UCLouvain. His research is in non-parametric and semi-parametric methods and bootstrap techniques in statistics and econometrics, with a particular focus in the field of productivity and efficiency analysis.  He published his papers in the top journals in Statistics, Econometrics and Operations Research. He served as Associate Editor at Operations Research, at Computational Statistics and Data Analysis and at the Journal of Productivity Analysis. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Past President and Honorary Member of the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium. He is a regular Visiting Professor at La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy and at the Toulouse School of Economics, France.