Government Statistics
Winner of Griffith Award Honored
Carol House, Chair of the Government statistics section
Rosemary Marcuss receives the Jeanne e. Griffith Mentoring Award. From left are emerson elliott, chair of the award committee; Andy Orlin,
Jeanne Griffith’s husband and founder of the award; Rosemary Marcuss; Kathy Wallman, chief statistician at the Office of Management and
Budget; and steve Landefeld, director of the Bureau of economic Analysis.
R
osemary Marcuss, deputy director of the Bureau of
Economic Analysis, is the winner of the 2008 Jeanne
Griffith Mentoring Award. She has been the deputy
director since she joined the agency in 1998. Before that, she
served for 15 years as the assistant director for tax analysis for “
Rosemary Marcuss has been an avid
the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Marcuss started her
champion for the Bureau of economic
career in Washington, DC, as a junior staff member of the
Analysis’ development programs
President’s Council of Economic Advisors. She holds a PhD in
economics from the University of Maryland and was a National
and efforts. she has played an inte-
Science Foundation fellow during her graduate studies.
gral role in finding innovative ways to
Marcuss maintains a special interest in making eco-
nomic statistics and analysis accessible to as many people develop employees, as well as sought
as possible. In 2005, she served as president of the National
Association for Business Economics. In addition, she
input from executive staff, division
has served on the board of directors of the National Tax
chiefs, managers, and employees to
Association and the Washington, DC, National Economists
Club. At present, she serves as a member of the adviso-
ensure that all programs are relevant
ry board of the George Washington University School of
to the need of our employees.
Public Policy and Public Administration.
Steve Landefeld, director of the Bureau of Economic
”
Analysis, says that during her time at BEA, Marcuss has made
mentoring and career development a central focus of the
bureau’s work. Shortly after coming to BEA, she redesigned has consistently been a major influence in these individual’s
BEA’s mentoring program, making it a model for other units lives. All have benefited from the experiences, and many have
in the Department of Commerce wishing to develop their advanced to leadership roles within the bureau or other agen-
own programs. cies. Marcuss’ corporate and individual mentoring efforts
Marcuss is continually redesigning BEA activities, from have positively affected not only the entire bureau, but also
external outreach to internal presentations, to involve more other government statistical organizations.
junior staff. She works with individual staff members to The Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award was established
develop their presentations. to encourage mentoring of junior staff in the federal statistical
Each year, Marcuss also finds time to serve as a mentor at system. It is presented annually to a supervisor who is nomi-
BEA. She has guided staff— ranging from accountants, to nated by coworkers and supervisors and chosen by the Award
economists, to administrators—throughout the bureau and Selection Committee.
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