Katharine Abraham

Katharine Abraham
Katharine Abraham
	Abraham in 1993
Commissioner of Labor Statistics; Bureau of Labor Statistics
	In office; October 1993 – October 2001
President	Bill Clinton; George W. Bush;
Preceded by	Janet L. Norwood
Succeeded by	Kathleen Utgoff
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers
	In office; 2011–2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Cecilia Rouse
Succeeded by	Betsey Stevenson
Personal details
Born	August 28, 1954; Dayton, Ohio
Spouse	Graham N. Horkley
Children	2
Academic background
Alma mater	Iowa State University (BA); Harvard University (PhD);
Academic work
Discipline	labor economics
Institutions	Sloan School of Management, MIT; University of Maryland, College Park
Awards	Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics (2002); Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics (2010); Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013); Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2020);

Katharine G. Abraham (born August 28, 1954) is an American economist who is a Distinguished University Professor of economics and survey methodology at the University of Maryland. She was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1993 to 2001 and a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2011 to 2013. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022 and, in 2024, was elected to be the President-Elect and then the President of the American Economic Association.

Katharine Abraham
Abraham in 1993

Commissioner of Labor Statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics
In office October 1993 – October 2001
President	Bill Clinton George W. Bush
Preceded by	Janet L. Norwood
Succeeded by	Kathleen Utgoff
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers
In office 2011–2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Cecilia Rouse
Succeeded by	Betsey Stevenson

Personal details
Born	(1954-08-28) August 28, 1954 Dayton, Ohio
Spouse	Graham N. Horkley
Children	2


Academic background
Alma mater	Iowa State University (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	labor economics
Institutions	Sloan School of Management, MIT University of Maryland, College Park


Awards	Julius Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics (2002) Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics (2010) Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (2013) Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2020)