May 2019 Quarterly Meeting

May 31, 2019 @ 9:00 am – 3:30 pm EDT

Bureau of Labor Statistics Conference Center
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE
Washington, DC

Coffee will be available at 8:30 a.m.

TimeTopic
9:00 – 9:15Welcome and Report from the Board of Directors – Linda Jacobsen, Chair
COPAFS Board of Directors Cynthia Clark,Executive Director, COPAFS
9:15 – 10:00Update on the Federal Statistical System – Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician of the United States, Office of Management and Budget.
10:00 – 12:00Statistical Agency Heads Panel I Paul Farello, BEA’s Associate Director for International Accounts Hubert Hamer, Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service Ted Horan, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (tentative) Barry Johnson, Director, Statistics of Income Division, Internal Revenue Service Jennifer Madans, Acting Director, National Center for Health Statistics Lynn Woodworth, Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics Emilda Rivers, Director, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
12:00 – 1:00Networking Lunch (on site)
Lunch is $15.00 for all except presenters and discussants.
Please let us know if you will NOT be having lunch with us.
1:00 – 3:00Statistical Agency Heads Panel II Jeffrey Anderson, Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics (tentative) William Beach, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics Steven Dillingham, Director, Census Bureau Thomas Leckey, Associate Administrator, Energy Information Administration Ephraim Leibtag, Economic Research Service (tentative) Rolf Schmitt, Deputy Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
3:00 – 3:30COPAFS Business Meeting
3:30Adjourn

~Security measures at BLS require that we provide a list of all attendees. Please RSVP to the COPAFS office by September 4th HERE or via e-mail: copafs@copafs.org ~

If you are taking Metro, use the Red Line to Union Station. If you are driving, parking is available in the Union Station garage. The main entrance to the Bureau of Labor Statistics is just across from Union Station on First Street, NE