Kirk Wolter, Ph.D., is currently Principal Statistical Advisor and Senior Fellow (Part Time) and formerly Executive Vice President and Chief Statistician with the National Opinion Research Center, and is also Professor (Part Time), Department of Statistics, University of Chicago. During his career, he has led or participated in the design of many of America's largest information programs, including the Current Business Surveys, the Current Employment Statistics program, the Current Population Survey, the 1980 and 1990 Decennial Censuses, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, the National Resources Inventory, and the 2012 and 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education. He led the conversion of major market research surveys to scanning-based methods of data collection, both in American and in many of the countries in Western Europe. He currently works with (a) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct the National Immunization Survey, a study of childhood immunization and one of the world's largest RDD (random digit dialing) telephone surveys, and (b) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to conduct the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, a study of the utilization and cost of health care by America’s seniors.