Keynote Speakers
The keynote addresses are given by esteemed figures in the field and set major themes for the conference. There were three keynote talks at ICES VII.
Ger Snijkers, Statistics Netherlands
Ger Snijkers is a leading expert in business survey methodology who serves as a senior methodologist and adviser in business data collection at Statistics Netherlands. Previously, he was a professor of business survey methodology at Utrecht University. In 2006, he spearheaded the launch of the International Business Data Collection Methodology Workshop, a series of focused meetings held next to ICES. He is the lead author of the 2013 Wiley textbook Designing and Conducting Business Surveys and editor-in-chief of the 2023 edited volume Advances in Business Statistics, Methods, and Data Collection.
Danny Pfeffermann, Hebrew University & University of Southampton
Pfeffermann is professor of social statistics at the University of Southampton and professor emeritus of statistics in the department of statistics and data science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Until about a year ago, he served for nine years as the national statistician and director general of Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. His main research areas are analytic inference from complex sample surveys, seasonal adjustment and trend estimation, small area estimation, inference under informative sampling and nonresponse, and mode effects and proxy surveys. Pfeffermann has published many articles in leading statistical journals and co-edited Handbook of Statistics Volume 29B: Sample Surveys: Inference and Analysis. He was president of the Israel Statistical Society and International Association of Survey Statisticians. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, International Statistical Institute, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Katherine Jenny Thompson, US Census Bureau
Thompson is the senior mathematical statistician in the Census Bureau Economic Directorate. She holds a graduate degree in applied statistics from The George Washington University and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Oberlin College. She is an American Statistical Association Fellow, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and vice president of the ASA. Additionally, Thompson is the survey statistics editor-in-chief of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology and an associate editor for the Journal of Official Statistics. She has published papers on a variety of topics related to complex surveys in journals such as the Journal of Official Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), Survey Methodology, Annals of Applied Statistics, International Statistical Review, Journal of Survey Sampling and Methodology, and Public Opinion Quarterly.
