PRB Senior Staff

William P. Butz, President and Chief Executive Officer
William Butz is president and chief executive officer of the Population Reference Bureau. Before joining PRB, he was senior economist at the RAND Corporation; associate director of the U.S. Census Bureau, where he was in charge of household surveys, international activities, and population estimates and projections; and division director for social and behavioral sciences at the National Science Foundation. His undergraduate and graduate education were at Indiana University and the University of Chicago, respectively, where he studied economics, statistics, and demography. He has taught economic development at UCLA and the University of California at Santa Barbara, served on numerous commissions and boards, and written more than 80 research and policy papers on a variety of topics related to economic demography, nutrition and health, and statistical and science policy. His recent research and writing have focused on the adequacy of the scientific and technical work force in the United States; the technology transfer process that links basic science to industrial production; implications of the worldwide adoption patterns of genetically modified crops; and fertility and migration policy options for the European Union. Since 2001, he has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, where his responsibilities include the social sciences, the Policy Forum, and the Education Forum.

James Scott, Chief Financial and Operating Officer
James Scott is PRB's chief financial and operating officer. Mr. Scott has more than 20 years' experience as the chief financial officer of nonprofit organizations in the health care, environment, and policy fields. He also has been a volunteer board member and executive committee member of the nonprofit environmental organizations Earth Share and American Whitewater. He received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from George Mason University.

Ellen Carnevale, Vice President of Communications and Marketing
Ms. Carnevale is vice president of communications and marketing at PRB. She is responsible for the management and strategic direction of PRB's online and print publications, marketing programs, and media and public relations. Prior to joining PRB in 1996, she held editorial and management positions with both private-sector and public-sector organizations, including the American Society for Training and Development, The Washington Post Company, the Graduate School USDA, the International City Management Association, and the University of Wisconsin. Her past experiences as a reporter and editor have been in the fields of occupational health and safety, workplace ergonomics, and family planning. She has also held positions as a women's reproductive health counselor and community educator, a counselor for people affected by alcoholism and drug addiciton, a community educator in drug addiction, and a volunteer counselor with Planned Parenthood. She has a B.A. in social work from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in adult education from the University of Wisconsin.

Carl Haub, Senior Demographer, Conrad Taeuber Chair of Public Information
Carl Haub holds the Conrad Taeuber Chair of Population Information at PRB. A specialist in the compilation and analysis of demographic data and dissemination, Mr. Haub has been with PRB since 1979. He has written numerous articles for publication in journals and the general press on a broad range of topics. Most noteworthy among his many published works is the World Population Data Sheet, which has an annual circulation of more than 40,000 and which he has authored since 1979. A recognized expert in the field, he has compiled 80 data sheets in the last 18 years, 32 of which were produced in foreign languages. In recent years, Mr. Haub has worked in India to produce wallcharts and other publications featuring data from health surveys.

Linda A. Jacobsen, Vice President of Domestic Programs
Linda Jacobsen is vice president of PRB’s domestic programs. Dr. Jacobsen is a demographer with more than 20 years of experience analyzing population trends and their implications for professional, business, and general audiences. She has expertise in family and household demography, population estimates and projections, socioeconomic status and inequality, survey research, statistical modeling, and geographic information systems. She has extensive research experience with a wide array of government and other survey data sources, and has been a featured speaker for many professional conferences and organizations. Dr. Jacobsen is a member of the Committee on Applied Demography of the Population Association of America, and the Board of Directors of the Association of Public Data Users. She also served from 1995 to 2001 on the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. Prior to joining PRB in 2005, Dr. Jacobsen served for 10 years as senior executive and chief demographer for two leading marketing information companies, Claritas and MetroEdge, where she led the data research and development efforts. Prior to joining Claritas, she was research director at American Demographics magazine for three years. From 1983 to 1992 she acquired nine years of research and teaching experience in sociology and demography as a faculty member at both Cornell University and the University of Iowa. She holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. in sociology from Reed College.

Richard Skolnik, Vice President of International Programs
Richard Skolnik is vice president of PRB's international programs. Prior to PRB, he was the executive director of the Harvard School of Public Health PEPFAR AIDS treatment program in Botswana, Nigeria, and Tanzania. From 2001 to late 2004, he was the director of the George Washington University's Center for Global Health, taught an undergraduate global health course, and supervised graduate student research projects. Between 1976 and 2001, he was with the World Bank, last serving as the director for health and education for the South Asia Region, where he focused on population, health, nutrition, and education efforts aimed at serving the poor in low-income countries. This included extensive work on girls' primary education, reproductive health, infant and child health, and the control of infectious diseases, including AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. In addition, he helped establish the STOP TB program, served three rounds on the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund, served on a number of WHO working groups on tuberculosis, and led independent evaluations of the International AIDS Vaccine Alliance and the Global Alliance for the Elimination of Leprosy. He is the author of an undergraduate textbook, The Essentials of Global Health. He received a B.A. from Yale University and an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.

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PRB Trustees

PRB is governed by a Board of Trustees representing diverse community and professional interests.

Officers

Francis L. Price, Chairman of the Board
Francis Price is president and CEO of Q3 Stamped Metal, Inc., a multifaceted supplier to the transportation industry, and Q3 JMC, a producer of video–based employee training programs. More than 400 of the Fortune 1000 have used Q3 JMC products in the last 10 years. Formerly, Mr. Price served in various capacities in finance, marketing, management, and administration at Xerox Corporation. He is a trustee of the Garth Fagan Dance Company and a trustee of his alma mater, the University of Rochester.

Faith Mitchell, Vice Chair of the Board
Faith Mitchell is vice president for program and strategy, Grantmakers in Health. Previously, she served as a senior program officer of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies in Washington D.C.; and as the deputy director for special projects for the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Research Council/National Academies. She was also the director of the National Academies' Center for Social and Economic Studies. Dr. Mitchell is the author of several books including Measuring Housing Discrimination in a National Study and Terrorism: Some Implications of 9/11.

Richard F. Hokenson, Treasurer of the Board
Richard F. Hokenson is the director of Hokenson & Company, an economic consultant firm. He was formerly the director of demographic research at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was responsible for analysis and forecasts of global demographic developments and their associated economic and investment implications. Mr. Hokenson is a pioneer in the application of demographics to economic and financial market forecasting. His publications appear as part of the Global Demographics Project at CSFB.

Montague Yudelman, Secretary of the Board
Montague Yudelman is a senior fellow at the World Wildlife Fund and a distinguished fellow at the World Resources Institute. Before that, he was director of Agriculture and Rural Development at the World Bank. Dr. Yudelman has served as a consultant to numerous institutions, including the Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, and several foreign governments. He has published widely in the field of agricultural development.

Trustees

George Alleyne is director emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), where he served as director from 1995 to 2003. He was assistant director of PAHO from 1990 to 1995. During his term as director of the Pan American Health Organization, he dealt with and published on issues such as equity in health, health and development, and international cooperation in health. Dr. Alleyne has served as a member of various bodies, including the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the WHO Tropical Disease Research Program and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Scientific Investigation in Developing Countries. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including prestigious decorations and national honors from many countries of the Americas. In 1990, he was made Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services in medicine.

Wendy Baldwin is director of the Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program at the Population Council. Previously she was the executive vice president for research at the University of Kentucky, where she oversaw the university's $300-million-a-year research enterprise. Before joining the university, Dr. Baldwin was the deputy director of extramural research at the National Institutes of Health where she was responsible for extramural policy issues and for developing procedures for research and training programs. She has published numerous papers and articles, and has testified extensively before Congress on a broad range of research issues.

Joel E. Cohen is Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Populations at Rockefeller University. He heads the Laboratory of Populations at both Rockefeller and Columbia universities. Dr. Cohen's research deals mainly with demography, ecology, population genetics, epidemiology, and social organization of human and nonhuman populations, and wtih mathematical concepts useful in these fields. He is the author of numerous works on these subjects.

Bert T. Edwards is executive director of the Office of Historical Trust Accounting at the U.S. Department of the Interior. He retired from his position as chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of State. He was an audit partner in the Arthur Andersen LLP Washington office for 24 years, and the industry head for nonprofit and higher education organizations. He had firm-wide technical responsibilities for the company's federal, state, and local government accounting and auditing practice.

Wolfgang Lutz is leader of the World Population Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, and director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has worked on family demography, fertility analysis, population projections, and the interactions between population and the environment. Dr. Lutz is the author and editor of 12 books and more than 100 articles.

Elizabeth Maguire is the president and chief executive officer of Ipas, and former director of the Office of Population of the United States Agency for International Developent. She has extensive experience in the international population and reproductive health field, including more than two decades with USAID's population assistance program in developing countries. Ms. Maguire is the recipient of eight USAID special honor awards for policy and program innovations. Her work focuses on strategic planning, program design and evaluation, operations research, policy, advocacy, and communications.

Leela Visaria is an independent researcher in Ahmedabad, India. Previously she was a professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, in Ahmedabad, India. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Visaria worked full time as a researcher on the Wellcome Project. Prior to her work on that project, she was a professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research in Ahmedabad, India. Her research interests include historical demography as well as field-based studies on problems on health, family planning, education, and the demographic transition.