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David Banks has a long-standing interest in human rights statistics. And he was
raised in Louisiana, which helped prompt the research behind the current talk. He has worked in three federal agencies and four universities, is active in the
American Statistical Association, and currently is Professor of the Practice of
Statistics at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University.
Ariela Blätter is the Director of
the Crisis Prevention and Response Center at Amnesty International, where she
manages Amnesty's response to conflicts by creating flexible, effective response
strategies for key policymakers, non-governmental organizations, the media and
the general public. She is an international human rights lawyer, with a specialization
in the rights of women and children in armed conflict. She has been a special
representative to the United Nations on the establishment of the International
Criminal Court, the Director of Human Rights for ELSA in Ireland, and an international
affairs specialist on the Middle East conflict for the Jewish Community Relations
Council in Boston. Currently, she is engaged on a project with AAAS to create
an early warning system to identify emerging conflict and genocide through the
use of commercial satellite technology.
Gary Shapiro has 40 years of experience in sample design, sample selection, and weighting of surveys. He worked on U.S. Census Bureau household and demographic surveys for more than 25 years and has been the Senior Statistician for a variety of surveys for over 10 years at Westat. He has a B.A. in Math from University of Michigan and a Masters in Statistics from North Carolina State University.
Erik Voeten is an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the George Washington University. He received his undergradate degree at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and received his Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University. He has also been a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Dr. Voeten's research and teaching interests focus on the politics of international institutions, particularly the United Nations, the European Union, and the European Court of Human Rights, as well as on formal and quantitative methods of analysis. His work has been published in various journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Politics.
Paul Zador has over 40 years of experience
in applied statistics with a focus on analysis of data from observational studies.
He has been senior statistician with Westat for over 13 years. Before coming
to Westat, he was a statistician and research study manager at the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety for over 20 years. Early in his career, he worked
as a statistician/management scientist for consulting companies, and was a member
of the technical staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. He has a Ph. D. in
mathematical statistics from Stanford University, and a B. A. in mathematics
from Oxford University.
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