Katharine Abraham

Katharine Abraham
Katharine Abraham
	Abraham in 1993
Commissioner of Labor Statistics; Bureau of Labor Statistics
	In office; October 1993 – October 2001
President	Bill Clinton; George W. Bush;
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	August 28, 1954; Ames, Iowa
Spouse	Graham N. Horkley
Children	2
Academic career
Institutions	Sloan School of Management, MIT; University of Maryland, College Park
Field	labor economics
Alma mater	Iowa State University (BA); Harvard University (PhD);
Awards	Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics (2002); Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics (2010); Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013); Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2020);

Katharine G. Abraham (born August 28, 1954) is an American economist who is the director of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, and a professor of survey methodology and economics at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993–2001 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011–2013. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

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