Dr. Ronald Prevost currently serves as a Senior Demographer for the Demographic Analytic Advisors. Dr. Prevost previously served as a Research Professor at Georgetown University focusing on empowering governments and public data users by enhancing the transparency, understanding, and application of data through secure standardized processes to solve socio-economic issues and equitably deliver resources. Dr. Prevost has more than 35 years of project and program management experience and is a technical expert for administrative records, big data, record linkage, and the statistical modeling of integrated data to improve the national statistical infrastructure and support policy and social analysis. He received his Ph.D. in Demography from Bowling Green State University (1991). Prior to his current position, he served as the Senior Statistician for Data Integration at the U.S. Census Bureau (2014 – 2020) focused on transforming legacy business processes to create new agile, relevant, efficient, and effective measures trusted by our data users. He also served as Assistant Inspector General for Economic and Statistical Program Assessment, U.S. Department of Commerce (2009 – 2014) where he initiated and promulgated a business analytics and data mining endeavor focused on risk assessment and mitigation, improved business performance, and the elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse in all Departmental programs. Specifically, he oversaw the activities of the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the International Trade Administration, the Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Patent and Trademark Organization. He held positions at the U.S. Census Bureau, including Special Assistant to the Associate Director for Demographic Programs (2008 – 2009), Assistant Division Chief for Data Management (2006 – 2008), and Special Assistant to the Chief of Demographic Surveys Division (2003 – 2006), where he shaped policy and championed the use of the administrative records infrastructure to support demographic and economic research and programs to produce national statistics. He was the first director of the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program (1999 – 2003), where he provided managerial and technical leadership for the production of research and public-use data, integrating censuses, demographic surveys, economic surveys, and administrative data. The LEHD Program’s public use data products include the Quarterly Workforce Indicators, the most detailed time series data produced on the demographic characteristics of local American labor markets and OnTheMap, a user-driven mapping tool for studying work-related commuting patterns. As Modeling Manager in the Administrative Records Research Staff (1996-1999) he designed the Census Bureau’s administrative records infrastructure in support of Census 2000. Finally, he served as a Demographer in the Population Estimates Branch (1987-1996) where he integrated survey, census, and administrative data sources through unique methodologies to create annual state, national, and local household, housing, and population statistics and survey controls. He held a position as Demographer/ Systems Analyst, Ohio Department of Development (1986 – 1987) where he created population estimates and projections for state, county, and local governments.