Nancy Potok, Ph.D.

Former Chief Statistician of the United States

Dr. Nancy Potok is the CEO of NAPx Consulting.  She formerly was the Chief Statistician of the United States, co-chairing the Federal Data Strategy and serving as a Commissioner on the bipartisan Commission for Evidence-Based Policy Making.  She previously served as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Census Bureau; Deputy Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the US Department of Commerce; Senior VP for Economic, Labor, and Population Studies at NORC at the University of Chicago; and Chief Operating Officer at McManis & Monsalve Associates, a business analytics and organizational transformation consulting firm. Dr. Potok has been an adjunct professor at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at The George Washington University and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. She is the recipient of the Presidential Rank Award, the Secretary of Commerce Gold Medal and Silver Medals, Risk Manager of the Year Award, Federal 100 Award, and the Arthur S. Flemming Award. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA, Column Editor for the Harvard Data Science Review, and on the Board of Visitors for the Computing and Information Science School at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. at The George Washington University.