Norman M. Bradburn is Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago. He serves on the faculties of the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, the Department of Psychology, the Graduate School of Business and the College. He is a former provost of the University of Chicago (1984–1989), chairman of the Department of Behavioral Sciences (1973–1979), and associate dean of the Division of the Social Sciences (1971–1973). From 2000-2004 he was the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Bradburn is currently a senior fellow at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Associated with NORC since 1961, he has been director of NORC and president of its Board of Trustees. Bradburn serves on the Board of Directors of the Chapin Hall Center for Children. He was chair of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences (NRC/NAS) from 1993 to 1998, and is past president of the American Association of Public Opinion Research (1991–1992). Bradburn chaired the NRC/NAS panel to advise the Census Bureau on alternative methods for conducting the census in the year 2000. The panel’s report, published as Counting People in the Information Age, was presented to the Census Bureau in October 1994. Bradburn was a member of the NRC/NAS panel to review the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the panel to assess the 2000 Census. He is currently one of the domain chairs for the Key National Indicators Initiative (KNII) at the NRC/NAS. Bradburn holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University.