Margaret C. Levenstein

Margaret Levenstein is Director of ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Founded in 1962, ICPSR is the largest curated social science data archive in the world and a recipient of a 2019 National Medal for Museum and Library Service.

Margaret Levenstein is Professor in the School of Information, Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research, and Adjunct Professor of Business Economics, University of Michigan. She is Principal Investigator of the NSF infrastructure project, Research Data Ecosystem and Co-Director of the Michigan Federal Statistical Research Data Center. She serves on boards of Social Science Research Council; World Data System; Data Documentation Initiative (DDI); National Internet Observatory; NOAA’s Data Archiving and Access Requirements Working Group (DAARWG); Criminal Justice Administrative Records System; and Wealth and Mobility Study. She received her PhD from Yale University and BA from Barnard College, Columbia University. She is a fellow of the National Association for the Advancement of Science. She is author of Accounting for Growth: Information Systems and the Creation of the Large Corporation.  Formerly president of the Business History Conference, she is the author of numerous historical and contemporary studies of competition and of innovation as well as the production, dissemination, and confidentiality protection of data for social and economic measurement.