Katharine G. Abraham

Katharine Abraham is professor of survey methodology at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993 to 2001. Prior to her tenure at the BLS, she taught at the University of Maryland and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a research associate at the Brookings Institution. She is currently co-editor of Labour Economics and has been an associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics and an assistant editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research; a former vice-president of the American Economic Association, past chair of the AEA’s Committee on Economic Statistics, and current chair of its Committee on Government Relations; a member of the National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics; and a fellow both of the American Statistical Association and the Society of Labor Economists. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and a B.S. from Iowa State University. Iowa State University awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2002.