PRB Senior Staff
Wendy Baldwin, President/CEO
Wendy Baldwin is president and CEO of PRB. She was vice president and director of the Population Council's Poverty, Gender, and Youth program. At the Population Council, she worked with country directors and professional staff to implement research to improve the future of young people. Prior to joining the Population Council, Baldwin was executive vice president for research at the University of Kentucky from 2003 to 2006; and deputy director for extramural research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, from 1994 to 2002. From 1972 to 1992, she worked at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health. She served as deputy director from 1991 to 1994. During her tenure at NIH, she led the development of programs on adolescent childbearing and sexual behavior and AIDS risk behaviors. Baldwin has served on the boards of directors and advisory boards of a number of government agencies, professional associations, and other organizations including the National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, Population Association of America, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, World Health Organization, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Baldwin received her Ph.D. in sociology and demography from the University of Kentucky. She has published dozens of research articles in journals and edited volumes on topics related to adolescent sexual health, adolescent contraceptive use, and women and HIV/AIDS.
James Scott, Chief Financial and Operating Officer
James Scott is PRB's chief financial and operating officer. Scott has more than 30 years' experience as the chief financial officer of nonprofit organizations in the health care, environment, and policy fields. He also has been an executive committee member of the nonprofit environmental organizations Earth Share and American Whitewater, and a board member of the Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP), an independent accrediting body for community-based health care organizations. Scott is also a founding member and treasurer of the GirlsGottaRun Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raises funds to allow impoverished Ethiopian girls to remain in school while training to be competitive runners. Scott received a B.A. from Georgetown University and an MBA from George Mason University.
Ellen Carnevale, Vice President of Communications and Marketing
Ellen Carnevale is vice president of communications and marketing at PRB. She is responsible for the management and strategic direction of PRB's online and print publications, marketing programs, and media and public relations. Prior to joining PRB in 1996, she held editorial and management positions with both private-sector and public-sector organizations, including the American Society for Training and Development, The Washington Post Company, the Graduate School USDA, the International City Management Association, and the University of Wisconsin. Her past experiences as a reporter and editor have been in the fields of occupational health and safety, workplace ergonomics, and family planning. She has also held positions as a women's reproductive health counselor and community educator, a counselor for people affected by alcoholism and drug addiction, a community educator in drug addiction, and a volunteer counselor with Planned Parenthood. She has a B.A. in social work from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and an M.A. in adult education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
James Gribble, Vice President of International Programs
James Gribble is vice president of international programs at PRB. Prior to becoming vice president, he served as director of the BRIDGE Project, which is PRB's seven-year program with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Before joining PRB in August 2007, Gribble was a senior scientist with the Futures Group and managed reproductive health policy-related work in Latin America and other parts of the world. He previously worked as director of behavioral and operations research at the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University. He has published many scientific articles on different aspects of family planning and reproductive health services and policies, and on factors that affect people's responses when participating in surveys. He is interested in biomedical ethics and served for over a decade as the chair of the institutional review board at the Whitman Walker Clinic, in Washington, D.C. Gribble completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin in marketing and Spanish. He holds a Doctor of Science in demography from Harvard University.
Carl Haub, Senior Demographer
Carl Haub is a senior demographer at PRB. A specialist in the compilation and analysis of demographic data and dissemination, Haub has been with PRB since 1979. He has written numerous articles for publication in journals and the general press on a broad range of topics. Most noteworthy among his many published works is the World Population Data Sheet, which has an annual circulation of more than 100,000, and which he has authored since 1980. A recognized expert in the field, he has compiled over 100 data sheets in the last 30 years, many of which were produced in multiple languages. Haub specializes in demography and health in India, a country to which he traveled since 1994, where he has worked on demographic projects and presentations. He has also worked in Belarus, Costa Rica, Germany, Honduras, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Seychelles, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, and Zambia, He holds a B.A. in political science and a M.A. in demography from Georgetown University.
Linda A. Jacobsen, Vice President of Domestic Programs
Linda Jacobsen is vice president of domestic programs at PRB. She is a demographer with more than 25 years of experience analyzing population trends and their implications for professional, policy, media, and general audiences. Her research has focused on family and household demography, population estimates and projections, and poverty and inequality. She has extensive research experience with the American Community Survey (ACS), and drafted two handbooks for understanding and using ACS data for the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey Office. Jacobsen is chair of the Government and Public Affairs Committee of the Population Association of America, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. She has been a featured speaker on U.S. demographic trends at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and at Harvard University's Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress. She has also been interviewed on NBC, CBS, CNN, and NPR, as well as by many newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. Prior to joining PRB in 2005, Dr. Jacobsen was a senior executive and chief demographer for two leading marketing information companies; the research director at American Demographics magazine; and a faculty member at Cornell University and the University of Iowa, where she conducted research and taught graduate studies in sociology and demography. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a bachelor's in sociology from Reed College.
Mark Mather, Associate Vice President of Domestic Programs
Mark Mather is associate vice president of domestic programs at PRB, where he specializes in issues related to U.S. social and demographic trends, child and family well-being, and data from the U.S. Census Bureau. He coordinates several projects that communicate population research to advocacy groups, educators, the media, and the public. He has authored more than a dozen reports on the well-being of children and families and writes articles and blogs on U.S. population trends and their implications. He provides technical support and training for the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT network and other audiences. His research is frequently cited by the New York Times, the Associated Press, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining PRB, Mather was a data analyst for a private-sector demographic research firm and spent three years as a Hewlett Foundation Trainee at the University of Maryland's Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in sociology/demography from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Rhonda R. Smith, Associate Vice President of International Programs
Rhonda R. Smith is associate vice president of international programs at PRB, where she works in issues related to family planning, reproductive health, and gender. She is a policy advocacy specialist, assisting partners in developing countries with translating, packaging, communicating, and using data for policy reform. Smith has conducted numerous advocacy workshops on topics ranging from repositioning family planning to gender-based violence and has developed strategic frameworks for policy action, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, she is leading a global initiative—RENEW—that focuses on the costs and consequences of malnutrition, using the groundbreaking presentation software "Trendalyzer" and other multimedia technologies. Prior to coming to PRB, Smith worked in the USAID mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, managing a large rural maternal and child health care program. She has written or contributed to many policy-relevant reports, briefs, and training materials and has worked in more than 15 developing countries including Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Niger, Mali, Morocco, Rwanda, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam. Smith holds a B.A. in nursing and a M.A. in public health from the University of Michigan.
List of PRB Staff
PRB Trustees
PRB is governed by a Board of Trustees representing diverse community and professional interests.
Officers
Martin Vaessen, Chair of the Board
Martin Vaessen is the director of the Demographic and Health Research division at ICF Macro, overseeing all the division activities, which include several large projects related to international survey data collection and research, monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS and malaria, improving maternal and child health, and a project that provides technical support to USAID Washington. He was project director for the worldwide Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program at ICF Macro for nearly 20 years, until October 2008. Prior to joining the DHS program in 1984, he was the chief of Survey Operations for the World Fertility Survey in London. Vaessen started his international career in 1967 at the Latin American Demographic Center in Santiago, Chile, where he collaborated on the Comparative Rural Fertility Surveys program.
Margaret Neuse, Vice Chair of the Board
Margaret Neuse, independent consultant, is director emeritus of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health, Bureau for Global Health, at USAID. She has over 20 years experience in international health and family planning programming. She was chief of the Population and Health Team in Bangladesh from 1997 to 1999, and deputy director of the Office of Population/Reproductive Health at USAID from 1993 to 1997. She also served as chief of Population, Health, and Nutrition at the USAID Regional Office for East and Southern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. Before joining USAID in 1984, Neuse developed health and family planning training for service providers and managers with other donor and USAID-funded organizations in Nepal, Egypt, and other developing countries. As a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador, she conducted grassroots health education and promoted health-related community projects.
Stanley Smith, Secretary of the Board
Stanley Smith is a professor of economics and director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Florida, as well as director of the bureau's Population Program, which produces the official population estimates for all Florida cities and counties as well as projections by age, sex, and race. He has been at the University of Florida since 1976. Smith has served on numerous professional boards and committees and currently is Florida's representative to the Federal-State Cooperative Programs for Population Estimates and Projections. He has published widely in economic, demographic, and statistical journals, and has also written a variety of books, monographs, reports, and other technical publications.
Richard F. Hokenson, Treasurer of the Board
Richard F. Hokenson is the director of Hokenson & Company, an economic consultant firm. He was formerly the director of demographic research at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was responsible for analysis and forecasts of global demographic developments and their associated economic and investment implications. Mr. Hokenson is a pioneer in the application of demographics to economic and financial market forecasting. His publications appear as part of the Global Demographics Project at CSFB.
Trustees
George Alleyne is director emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), where he served as director from 1995 to 2003. He was assistant director of PAHO from 1990 to 1995. During his term as director of the Pan American Health Organization, he dealt with and published on issues such as equity in health, health and development, and international cooperation in health. Dr. Alleyne has served as a member of various bodies, including the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the WHO Tropical Disease Research Program and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Scientific Investigation in Developing Countries. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including prestigious decorations and national honors from many countries of the Americas. In 1990, he was made Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services in medicine.
Felicity Barringer is a national environmental correspondent for the New York Times. Previously she was United Nations Bureau Chief, covering the run-up to the Iraq war in early 2003. In the early 1990s she specialized in demographics. She has also been a media reporter and the founding editor of the Monday Business Day section, which focuses on media and technology news. After nine years with the Washington Post, she joined the New York Times as a correspondent in Moscow in 1986 covering the upheavals of the early Gorbachev era, including the Chernobyl disaster.
Marcia Carlson is currently an associate professor of sociology, and an affiliate at the Center for Demography and Ecology, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests center on the links between family contexts and the wellbeing of children and parents. Her most recent work is focused on father involvement, co-parenting, union formation, and couple relationship quality among unmarried parents. From 2001 to 2008, she was an assistant/associate professor in the School of Social Work at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1999, followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. Prior to graduate school, she worked three years on federal social policy issues in Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Chacko is an associate professor of geography and international affairs and chair of the Department of Geography at George Washington University. She has taught geography at various institutions, including Loreto College in Calcutta and UCLA in Los Angeles. She is especially interested in the health and gender dimensions of development and has conducted research in these areas in India and the United States. Her current research focuses on the use of cultural and social capital in community development and on ethnic imaging and the creation of ethnic space in U.S. cities. Chacko is a co-author of Contemporary World Regional Geography; "Understanding the Geography of Pellagra in the United States: the Role of Social and Place-based Identities," in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography; and "Identity and Assimilation Among Young Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Washington," in The Geographical Review.
Bert T. Edwards was executive director of the Office of Historical Trust Accounting at the U.S. Department of the Interior. He retired from his position as chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of State. He was an audit partner in the Arthur Andersen LLP Washington office for 24 years, and the industry head for nonprofit and higher education organizations. He had firm-wide technical responsibilities for the company's federal, state, and local government accounting and auditing practice.
Francis L. Price is president and CEO of Q3 Stamped Metal, Inc., a multifaceted supplier to the transportation industry, and Q3 JMC, a producer of video–based employee training programs. More than 400 of the Fortune 1000 have used Q3 JMC products in the last 10 years. Formerly, Mr. Price served in various capacities in finance, marketing, management, and administration at Xerox Corporation. He is a trustee of the Garth Fagan Dance Company and a trustee of his alma mater, the University of Rochester.
Michael Wright joined World Wildlife Fund in 2009 as the managing director for Coastal East Africa where he also co-leads WWF's alliance with CARE. Most recently he was the managing director of the Natural Capital Project, a partnership between WWF, the Nature Conservancy, and Stanford University, where he is a consulting professor. He was the director of the Conservation and Sustainable Development Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation from 2002 to 2007. Prior to joining MacArthur, Wright was president and CEO of the African Wildlife Foundation. Wright spent 15 years with the World Wildlife Fund, where he held a variety of positions including developing and directing the Wildlands and Human Needs Program. From 1972 to 1979 he served with the Nature Conservancy. He has written for a number of academic and professional journals and is the co-editor of Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community-based Conservation.
Montague Yudelman was director of Agriculture and Rural Development at the World Bank. Yudelman has served as a consultant to numerous institutions, including the Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, and several foreign governments. He has published widely in the field of agricultural development.