In fall of 2021, six members were elected to serve four-year terms on the ICPSR Governing Council starting in 2022, and Dave Armstrong was appointed Council Chair. A list of previous Councils also is available on our website.

Biographies

Randall Akee is a Nonresident Fellow with the Economic Studies program at Brookings. He was a David M. Rubenstein Fellow with the Economic Studies program from 2017-2019. He is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in June 2006. Randall Akee is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Labor Studies and the Children's Groups. In addition, he is a research fellow at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), a faculty affiliate at the UCLA California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at UCLA and a faculty affiliate at UC Berkeley Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). His main research interests are Labor Economics, Economic Development and Migration.

Dave Armstrong is an Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Centre for Computational and Quantitative Social Science at Western University in Ontario, Canada. Armstrong specializes in statistics and data analysis. His research spans topics from measurement and latent trait estimation to the role of non-linearity and data mining techniques in statistical models.

Bobray Bordelon is an Economics & Finance Librarian and Data Services Librarian at Princeton University. Bordelon is a long-time, active ICPSR Official Representative, who has been a knowledgeable and effective promoter of ICPSR's data and other resources. He was honored with the 2017 William H. Flanigan Award for Distinguished Service as an ICPSR Official Representative. Since 2014, he has co-taught the workshop on Providing Social Sciences Data Services, which also gives him direct experience and insights into the Summer Program workings in a way that few ORs have. Bordelon is a respected Data & Economics Librarian at Princeton, as well as in the wider professional spheres of ALA, ACRL, and IASSIST, which should bring a broad perspective from these important areas. His knowledge of the variety of data sources, and his willingness to share this expertise with the data community speaks to his commitment to public service. Bordelon has a BS in Finance and Masters in Library & Information Science from Louisiana State University and an MBA from New Mexico State University. His professional interests involve service to state, national, and international organizations while promoting subject content and knowledge and its access.

Michael Cafarella is a Principal Research Scientist in the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT. Michael's research group conducts research on all areas of database systems and information management.

Jon E. Cawthorne is dean of the Wayne State University Library System and the University's School of Information Sciences. Cawthorne began his library leadership career in Detroit, as director of the Detroit Public Library's flagship branch, where he was later named interim deputy director to lead the entire 24-branch system through an organizational transition. Before becoming West Virginia University Libraries dean in 2014, Cawthorne also held leadership positions at Florida State University, Boston College, and San Diego State University. He holds an MLS degree from the University of Maryland, and a PhD in managerial leadership in the information professions from Simmons College. His published research bridges the realms of diversity, libraries, organizational culture, and leadership; with a shared focus on models that anticipate and plan for rapid change and the future through strategic capacity building and workforce development.

James Doiron is the Research Data Management Services Coordinator, University of Alberta Libraries and the Academic Director of the University of Alberta Research Data Centre. With an educational background in the Social Sciences (Psychology; Criminology), James has extensive applied research and data management experience across a wide range of disciplines, areas of focus and data types. James actively sits on a number of local, national and international advisory and working groups, including both as a member of the UofA's Institutional RDM Strategy Working Group and Health Research Ethics Board, the Statistics Canada Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) External Advisory Committee, and the Canadian National Committee for CODATA. James is co-Chair of the Portage Network Data Management Planning (DMP) Expert Group, and is additionally a member of both the Portage National Research Data Management Training Expert Group (NTEG), as well as the Dataverse North Expert Group.

Kristin Eschenfelder is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School. Eschenfelder's research fields include data management, scholarly communications, information/data policy, science and technology studies, and her areas of interest include data sharing and data governance, information policy, scholarly communications, human computer interaction, government information.

Susan Frazier-Kouassi is the Director of the Texas Juvenile Crime Prevention Center, The College of Juvenile Justice & Psychology at Prairie View A&M University. Susan's research areas of interest focus on the social determinants of health, especially obesity; youth violence and crime prevention; youth empowerment; and community-academic partnerships.

Mark Hansen is the Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation and Professor of Journalism and Innovation at Columbia Journalism School. Hansen works with data in an essentially journalistic practice, crafting stories through algorithm, computation, and visualization. For nearly three decades, Hansen has been working at the intersection of data, art, and technology.

Trevon Logan is a Hazel C. Youngberg Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio State University. Logan specializes in economic history, economic demography, and applied microeconomics. His research in economic history concerns the development of living standards measures that can be used to directly assess the question of how the human condition has changed over time. Logan is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gisela Sin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois. Gisela studies political institutions with an emphasis on the strategic elements of separation of powers. Gisela's research demonstrates the value of taking a broader view when studying the division of decision-making authority: checks and balances create expectations between institutions that can be fully understood only by identifying their strategic interactions.

Ken Smith is Distinguished Professor of Family Studies and Population Science, a Huntsman Cancer Institute Investigator and Director of the Pedigree and Population Resource at the University of Utah. A biodemographer, Smith is interested in familial aspects of health, aging, and longevity. Currently, he is investigating the socio-environmental and genetic origins of rates of aging in humans and exceptional longevity in families. His other key research interests focus on psychosocial and behavioral factors in cancer prevention and control and the effects of family, community, and socioeconomic factors affecting health outcomes, obesity, mortality, and longevity of individuals.

Katherine Wallman served as chief statistician at the United States for 25 years, retiring at the end of 2016. She provided policy oversight, established priorities, advanced long-term improvements, and set standards for a federal statistical establishment that comprises more than 100 agencies spread across every cabinet department. Wallman represented the US government in international statistical organizations, including the United Nations and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. During her tenure, Wallman has increased collaboration among the agencies of the US statistical system, fostered improvements in the scope and quality of the nation's official statistics, strengthened protections for confidential statistical information, and initiated changes that have made the products of the system more accessible and usable.

Future meetings

2022

• October 6-7 (Perry Building)

2023

• April 20-21 (Perry Building)
• October 11 (Perry Building)
  OR meeting is October 12-13

2024

• April 11-12 (Perry Building)
  New Council Orientation April 24
• October 3-4 (Perry Building)

2025

• April 17-18 (Perry Building)
• October 15 (Perry Building)
  OR meeting is October 16-17

2026

• April 16-17 (Perry Building)
  New Council Orientation April 15
• October 1-2 (Perry Building)

Minutes

View the Council minutes dating back to 1995.