LEADERSHIP

Dr. Eun (Ann) Um

President and CEO

Dr. Um is a statistician with a doctorate in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics from Columbia University, an M.A. in Policy Analysis and Evaluation from Stanford University, and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Columbia University. She has previous experience designing and managing clinical trials and conducting data analysis at Harvard Medical School. She served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas. She taught graduate courses in both research design and statistics. She is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Human Studies Review Board member. She is primarily known for her contributions to multilevel modeling, survival analysis, and individual growth modeling and for making these and other statistical methods accessible to empirical researchers. She has received numerous awards and published multiple books and articles.

Dr. David Fetterman

Advisory Board Chair

Dr. Fetterman is a nationally renowned scholar with a Ph.D. and two A.M.s in Medical Anthropology and Education from Stanford University. He was a professor at Stanford. In addition, Dr. Fetterman served as Director of Evaluation at Stanford Medical School. He has received numerous awards. In addition, Dr. Fetterman has published more than 150 books and articles. He has made contributions to various encyclopedias. For example, Dr. Fetterman introduced empowerment evaluation. Dr. Fetterman’s op-ed pieces appear in newspapers. In addition, he is frequently requested for radio interviews. Dr. Fetterman is a famous speaker in medical research and evaluation.

Dr. Liu has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Statistical Computing and Quantitative Sociology from Stanford University. He is an advisor at Harvard University. In addition, Dr. Liu was a research fellow at Stanford University and a chief data scientist for IBM research. Dr. Liu has published numerous books and papers.