AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY STATISTICS

NICOLAS HENGARTNER (2005-2006) Chair; MEMBER (2001-2006)

MARK BERNSTEIN (2000-2005)

Dr. Bernstein is currently a Senior Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation working to develop RAND's expertise and analytical capabilities on energy and environmental issues. Current research includes analyses of state level changes in energy intensity, scenarios and portfolio options for energy and climate policies, and the role of energy efficiency in economic productivity. Prior to RAND, Dr. Bernstein was Senior Energy Policy Analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Senior Analyst for the National Renewable Energy Lab and Director of the Center for Energy and the Environment at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bernstein holds a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Environmental Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.

JOHNNY BLAIR (2001-2006)

Currently Senior Methodologist at Abt Associates in Washington D.C. Formerly Associate Director, Survey Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park. B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1968. Research interests: survey sampling, telephone surveys, pretesting methodologies, cognitive aspects of survey design, proxy reporting. Co-author (with Ronald Czaja) of Designing Surveys: A Guide to Decisions and Procedures.

MARK BURTON (2001-2006)

Mark Burton was awarded a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Tennessee in 1991. His professional career has included both academic and consultative research in the areas of regional, transportation, and telecommunications economics. In addition to authoring a number articles and monographs, Dr. Burton has provided testimony in connection with a variety of judicial and regulatory proceedings. In August 2004, Dr. Burton was named as Director of Transportation Economics at the University of Tennessee’s Center for Transportation Research.

Cutler Cleveland (2005-2007)

Cutler Cleveland holds a B.S. in Ecology and Systematics from Cornell University, a M.S. in Marine Science from Louisiana State University, and a Ph. D. in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He currently is the Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University, where he also holds the position of Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment.  Dr. Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Science, 2004), Editor-in-Chief of the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier Science, in preparation) and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecological Economics. He has been a consultant to numerous private and public organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, Charles River Associates, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.  The National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the MacArthur Foundation have supported his research. He has won publication awards from the International Association of Energy Economics and the National Wildlife Federation. Dr. Cleveland's research focuses on the ecological-economic analysis of how energy and materials are used to meet human needs.  His research employs the use of econometric models of oil supply, natural resource scarcity, and the relation between the use of energy and natural resources and economic systems.  Dr. Cleveland publishes in journals such as Nature, Science, Ecological Modeling, Energy, The Energy Journal, The Annual Review of Energy, Resource and Energy Economics, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, and Ecological Economics.  He has won publication awards from the International Association of Energy Economics and the National Wildlife Federation.

JAE EDMONDS (2002 – 2007)

Jae Edmonds is a Chief Scientist and Technical Leader of Economic Programs at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration with the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Edmonds heads an international global change research program at PNNL with active collaborations in more than a dozen institutions and countries. He is well known for his contributions to the integrated assessment of climate change, the examination of interactions between energy, technology, policy and the environment. Dr. Edmonds has expounded extensively on the subject of global change including books, papers, and presentations. Dr. Edmonds’ books on the subject of global change include, Global Energy Assessing the Future, with John Reilly (Oxford University Press) and A Primer on Greenhouse Gases (Lewis Publishing and scientific book of the year at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). He has served as a Lead Author for all three major assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and numerous interim assessment reports. He has repeatedly testified before Congress on this subject, and has prepared and conducted briefings at the highest levels of government. In 2000 Dr. Edmonds received the U.S. State Department’s “Distinguished Service” Award. In 1997 Dr. Edmonds received the BER50 Award from the United States Department of Energy in recognition of his research accomplishments. Dr. Edmonds recently received the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum “Hall of Fame” Award (2000). Dr. Edmonds was trained as an economist with a B.A. from Kalamazoo College (1969), and M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1974) from Duke University.

MOSHE FEDER (2003-2005)

Senior Research Statistician, Statistics Research Division, Research Triangle Institute. Holds B.Sc. (Mathematics & Physics, Hebrew University), M.Sc. and D.Sc. (Mathematics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) and also M.Sc. in statistics from Carleton University. Research interests include state-space Modeling of time series data and analysis of complex survey data.

BARBARA FORSYTH (2004-2006)

Currently Senior Study Director at Westat in Rockville, MD. Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and psychometrics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Research interests in cognitive aspects of questionnaire design, questionnaire pretesting and usability testing using cognitive laboratory techniques, approaches to electronic survey data collection, and general survey methods.

Walter Hill (2005-2007)

NEHA KHANNA (2002 – 2007)

Associate Professor, Economics and Environmental Studies, Binghamton University. Research interests: climate policy, global oil economy, growth and environment, voluntary pollution prevention. Ph.D. (1998) in Environmental Economics from Cornell University.

NAGARAJ K. NEERCHAL (2003-2005)

Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County. Ph.D. in Statistics, Iowa State University, 1986. Research interests: time series, overdispersion models, Applications of Statistics in Environmental and Transportation Data.

SUSAN M. SEREIKA (2004-2006)

She received her Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1990.  Currently she is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in Department of Health and Community Systems, School of Nursing and the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health. She also serves as Director of the Center for Research and Evaluation in the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Director of the Data Management and Analysis Core of the University of Pittsburgh Pepper Center, and Director of the Data Management and Analysis Core of the Center for Research in Chronic Disorders.  Her research interests include risk factor modeling of data, longitudinal modeling of real-time data, and model assessment diagnostics.

Darius Singpurwalla (2005-2007)

Mr. Singpurwalla is a senior consultant within Law Econonmics Consulting Group's (LECG) E-Discovery practice.   He has over 7 years of experience in data analysis using advanced statistical techniques within the financial services industry. His experience within these industries includes complex modeling, customer segmentation, market research, and targeting. Prior to joining LECG, Mr. Singpurwalla was a consultant at Ernst and Young, and a database marketing analytics manager at Providian Financial (fifth largest credit card issuer in the United States) and Charles Schwab & Company brokerage house.

RANDY R. SITTER (2000-2005)

Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University. Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Waterloo, 1990. Research interests: survey sampling, experimental design, industrial statistics.