Spiro Stefanou has been the administrator of the Economic Research Service at the US Department of Agriculture since August 2020. He provides leadership and guidance for the agency research, analytical, and technical operations.
Department of Agriculture
Science and Technology Policy Fellows Ready to Effect Change
William Adler, Kyle Novak, and Jiayang Sun were selected as fellows for the inaugural ASA/ACM/AMS/IMS/MAA/SIAM 2019-2020 Science and Technology Policy Fellowship and will begin their appointments this month.
Statistics and Science Policy
In her September column, Karen Kafadar talks about the ASA’s Science Policy Department and the director of science policy’s extensive efforts to keep statistics in the science limelight.