Katharine Abraham | |
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Commissioner of Labor Statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
In office October 1993 – October 2001 | |
President | |
Preceded by | Janet L. Norwood |
Succeeded by | Kathleen Utgoff |
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers | |
In office 2011–2013 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Cecilia Rouse |
Succeeded by | Betsey Stevenson |
Personal details | |
Born | Dayton, Ohio | August 28, 1954
Spouse | Graham N. Horkley |
Children | 2 |
Academic career | |
Field | labor economics |
Institutions | Sloan School of Management, MIT University of Maryland, College Park |
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Katharine G. Abraham (born August 28, 1954[2]) is an American economist who is a Distinguished University Professor of economics and survey methodology[3] at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993–2001[1] and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011–2013.[4][5] She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 and, in 2024, was elected to be the President-Elect and then the President of the American Economic Association.[6]
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