Ms. Carlson (bcarlson@eclac.cl) is Development Statistician with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, she was senior advisor, UNICEF Headquarters, inter-regional advisor in the UN Statistical Office, and Chief of General Surveys, International Statistical Programmes Center, US Bureau of the Census. She has been an active member of the ISI since 1981 and is the current Chair of this committee and serves on the ISI Ad Hoc Committee on Expansion and Renewal and the Elections Committee. She works with the PARIS21, serving on its Task Teams on Statistical Capacity Building and Advocacy. 

* Cynthia Z.F. Clark

Dr. Clark  (cynthia_clark@nass.usda.gov) is the Administrator of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Previously she was Director of Methodology at the United Kingdom Office for National Statistics, and prior to that, Associate Director for Methodology and Standards at the U.S. Census Bureau. She has been a member of ISI since 1997.  She became chair of the ISI Committee on Women in Statistics in 2003.  She served as a board member of the International Association for Survey Statisticians from 1999-2003.  She is a member of the Board of the American Statistical Association (2003-2005) and served as president of the Washington Statistical Society (2000-2001).

* Lamine Diop

Mr. Lamine Diop (Lamine.Diop@afristat.org) is Director General of Afristat, in Bamako (Mali) since 1996. He was Director of the European Statistical Training Centre for developing countries (CESD) in Paris (1980 to 1994), and Head of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Senegal in Dakar (1974 to 1980). He has been Vice President of ISI (1981-1983) and of IAOS (1999-2001). He has been an active member of ISI since 1978 and has served as a member of several of its commitees.

* Martha Farrar

Ms. Farrar (martha.farrar@nass.usda.gov) is Chief of the Data Collection Branch at the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.  She is a member of the American Statistical Association and has been a member of ISI since 2000. Martha served on the program committee for the Third International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS III) and the Organizing Committee for ICAS IV.

* Dennis J. Trewin

Mr. Trewin (dennistrewin@grapevine.net.au) is an international statistical consultant. Until 2007 he was the Australian Statistician at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Previously he held Deputy positions at the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Statistics New Zealand. He is Chairman of the General Topics Programme Committee for the 2009 ISI Session. He was previously the President of the ISI, and President of the International Association of the Survey Statisticians. He is also a Past President of the Statistical Society of Australia and was the Inaugural Chair of their Accreditation Committee.

* Fred Vogel

Fred Vogel (fvogel@msn.com) most recently was the Global Manager of the International Comparison Program where he was on the staff of the Development Data Group in the World Bank but also reported to an International Board of Directors. The program included over 100 countries. He is a charter member of the International Association of Survey Statisticians where he has served on the Council. He is also a member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and served on the Program Committee for the 2001 Seoul Session. In 1993, he formed the ISI commmittee on Agricultual Statistics and was it s first chair. He has resumed the position of chair in 2005. He initiated and was program chair of the First International Conference on Agriculture Statistics (ICAS) held in 1998 in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the World Bank, he was the Chair of the Agricultural Statistics Board in the US Department of Agriculture. In that capacity, he had the final responsibility for the scope and content of over 400 statistical reports covering agriculture.