Officers

                                                           
GARY SHAPIRO              
Chair

Gary Shapiro is retired from Westat, where he was Senior Statistician from 1996 to 2009. Gary was the lead statistician, senior statistician, or/and task leader on over 30 projects, mostly involving survey sample design, weighting, and variance estimation. Prior to being at Westat, Gary was a Senior Statistician at Abt Associates from 1993 to 1996, where he was the lead statistician for a number of surveys. From 1965 to 1993 Gary was at the U S Census Bureau. For almost 20 years of this period, he was an Assistant Chief of the Demographic Statistical Methods Division, where he oversaw the operation of up to five branches with the responsibility for sample design, weighting, and variance estimation for the demographic surveys. He is a co-founder of Statistics Without Borders, together with Steve Pierson and Fritz Scheuren. He served as initial SWB Co-Chair and was then elected Chair in 2010.

Rebecca Scherzer, PhD is the principal research statistician on the NIH-funded FRAM study (Fat Redistribution and Metabolic Change in HIV Infection) at the University of California at San Francisco.  In this role, Rebecca investigates the progression of fat distribution, metabolic changes, and contributors to cardiovascular disease in HIV-infected patients.  Prior to joining FRAM, Rebecca spent several years in the pharmaceutical industry as a senior statistical manager.  Rebecca served as chair of the SWB New Projects Committee from January to July 2010, and is presently Vice Chair of SWB. 

 

NILUPA GUNARATNA
Secretary

 

STEVE PIERSON
Ex-officio Board Member

 

Steve has been ASA Director of Science Policy since March, 2008. Previously, he was Head of Government Relations for the American Physical Society and Associate Professor of Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA.