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Committee descriptions

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Board of Directors

Appointed Officers

Local Representatives

Standing Committees (specified in the By-Laws)

• Bilingualism Committee
• Election Committee
• Executive Committee
• Finance Committee
• Program Committee
• Publications Committee

Continuing Committees

• Accreditation Committee
• Accreditation Appeal Committee
• Awards Committee
• Award for Case Studies and Data Analysis Committee
• The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award Committee
• CRM-SSC Prize Committee
• Pierre Robillard Award Committee
• Lise Manchester Award
• SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work Committee
• Student Presentation Award Committee
• Committee on Membership
• Committee on Women in Statistics
• Public Relations Committee
• Research Committee
• Statistical Education Committee

Ad Hoc Committees

• AusCan Scholar Committee
• Committee on New Investigators
• Student Travel Awards Committee

SSC Appointments to Other Organizations

• List of Appointments

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Appointed Officers

Executive Director	David A. Binder	2010-12-31
Manager of Electronic Services	Hugh A. Chipman	2011-12-31
Editor of Liaison	Larry K. Weldon	2010-12-31
Editor of The Canadian Journal of Statistics	Jiahua Chen	2012-12-31
Managing Editor of The Canadian Journal of Statistics	Angelo Canty	2012-12-31
SSC Executive Editor of Statistics Surveys	Richard Lockhart	2010-12-31

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Local Representatives

Acadia University	Ying Zhang	2011-06-30
University of Alberta	N. Prasad	2012-06-30
University of British Columbia	A. John Petkau	2011-06-30
Brock University	Mei Ling Huang	2011-06-30
University of Calgary	Gemai Chen	2012-06-30
Carleton University	Jason Nielsen	2012-06-30
Concordia University	Yogendra P. Chaubey	2010-06-30
Dalhousie University	Bruce Smith	2010-06-30
University of Guelph	Julie Horrocks	2010-06-30
HEC Montréal	Marc Fredette	2010-06-30
Université Laval	Thierry Duchesne	2011-06-30
Lunenfeld Research Institute (Toronto)	Shelley Bull	2011-06-30
University of Manitoba	Brad Johnson	2012-06-30
McGill University	Masoud Asgharian	2011-06-30
McMaster University	Angelo Canty (Coordinator)	2011-06-30
Memorial University of Newfoundland	Gary Sneddon	2012-06-30
Université de Moncton	Thu Pham-Gia	2011-06-30
Université de Montréal	David Haziza	2012-06-30
University of New Brunswick	Renjun Ma	2010-06-30
University of Northern British Columbia	Kevin J. Keen	2010-06-30
University of Ottawa	Raluca Balan	2010-06-30
Université du Québec à Montréal	Pascale Rousseau	2010-06-30
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	Jean-François Quessy	2010-06-30
Queen's University	Paul Y. Peng	2011-06-30
University of Regina	Yang Zhao	2012-06-30
University of Saskatchewan	Mik Bickis	2010-06-30
Université de Sherbrooke	Ernest Monga	2011-06-30
Simon Fraser University	Jinko Graham	2010-06-30
University of Toronto	Wendy Lou	2011-06-30
University of Victoria	Farook Nathoo	2012-06-30
University of Waterloo	Yulia Gel	2012-06-30
University of Western Ontario	Wenging He	2010-06-30
University of Windsor	Sudhir R. Paul	2010-06-30
University of Winnipeg	Robert G. McLeod	2010-06-30
York University	Augustine Wong	2010-06-30
Statistics Canada	Jack Gambino	2011-06-30
Institut de Statistique du Québec	Louise Bourque	2011-06-30
SORA	Wendy Lou	2011-06-30
Société statistique de Montréal	Marc Bourdeau	2011-06-30
Statistical Society of Ottawa	Sheryl Bartlett	2011-06-30

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Bilingualism Committee

Cynthia Bocci (Chair)	2011-06-30
Eric Marchand	2012-06-30
Erica E.M. Moodie	2011-06-30
Jean-Francois Plante	2012-06-30
Jean-François Quessy	2011-06-30

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Election Committee

Romn Viveros-Aguilera* (Chair)	2010-06-30
Subhash Lele*	2010-06-30
Bruno Rémillard*	2010-06-30
Julie Trépanier*	2010-06-30
Nancy Heckman	2012-06-30
Rhonda Rosychuck	2010-06-30
Carl Schwarz	2010-06-30

*ex officio

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Executive Committee

President	Bovas Abraham
President-Elect	Donald L. McLeish
Executive Secretary	Julie Trépanier
Treasurer	John Koval
Publications Officer	Wendy Lou
Meetings Coordinator	Duncan Murdoch
Past-President	Román Viveros-Aguilera

committee description

SEE ALSO: Board of Directors

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Finance Committee

John Koval* (Chair)	2012-06-30
Julie Trépanier*	2012-06-30
Raluca Balan	2011-06-30
Patrick Brown	2011-06-30
Edward Chen	2012-06-30
Thierry Duchesne	2010-06-30
Marc Fredette	2012-06-30
Lenka Mach	2010-06-30
Susana Rubin Bleuer	2012-06-30
Angelo Canty	2012-12-31

*ex officio

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Program Committee

Duncan J. Murdoch (Chair)	2011-06-30
Brian Allen	2013-06-30
David A. Binder	2010-06-30
Cynthia Bocci	2011-06-30
Murray Burke	2010-06-30
Smiley Cheng	2010-06-30
Hugh A. Chipman	2012-06-30
Thierry Duchesne	2011-06-30
John Koval	2012-06-30
Christian Léger	2012-06-30
Wendy Lou	2010-06-30
Robert Platt	2010-06-30
Matías Salibián-Barrera	2010-06-30
Steve Thompson	2010-06-30

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Publications Committee

Wendy Lou* (Chair)	2010-06-30
Julie Trépanier*	2012-06-30
John Koval*	2012-06-30
Jiahua Chen	2012-12-31
Richard Lockhart	2010-12-31
Hugh A. Chipman	2011-12-31
Angelo Canty	2012-12-31
Larry Weldon	2010-12-31

*ex officio

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Accreditation Committee

Neil Arnason (Chair)	2010-06-30
John Amrhein	2010-06-30
Jean-François Angers	2010-06-30
Cynthia Bocci	2010-06-30
Hugh A. Chipman	2010-06-30
Hélène Crépeau	2010-06-30
Tina Haller	2010-06-30
David Hamilton	2010-06-30
Sheilah Hogg-Johnson	2010-06-30
Mary Lesperance	2010-06-30
Lisa Lix	2010-06-30
François Pageau	2010-06-30
Stephen Smith	2010-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO: Accreditation Committee website

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Accreditation Appeals Committee

Román Viveros-Aguilera (Chair)	2010-06-30
Edward Chen	2010-06-30
Patrick Farrell	2010-06-30
Yong Hao	2010-06-30
Milorad Kovacevic	2010-06-30
John Koval	2010-06-30
John Spinelli	2010-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO: Accreditation Committee website

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Awards Committee

Christian Genest* (Chair)	2010-06-30
Román Viveros-Aguilera*	2010-06-30
Jean-François Angers	2010-06-30
David Bellhouse	2012-06-30
John Brewster	2010-06-30
Gordon Fick	2012-06-30
Christopher Field	2011-06-30
Kevin J. Keen	2010-06-30
Jerald F. Lawless	2010-06-30
Mary Lesperance	2011-06-30
Donald L. McLeish	2010-06-30
Louis-Paul Rivest	2010-06-30
Rhonda Rosychuk	2012-06-30
David Hamilton	2012-06-30

*ex officio

committee description

SEE ALSO: Award Winners

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Award for Case Studies and Data Analysis Committee

Kevin J. Keen (Chair)	2010-06-30
Julie Bernier	2010-06-30
Julie Zhou	2010-06-30
Lajmi Lakhal Chaieb	2010-06-30

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The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award Committee

Mary Lesperance (Chair)	2011-09-30
Aurélie Labbe	2010-06-30
Aera Thavaneswaran	2012-06-30
Augustine Wong	2011-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO: Winners of The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award

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CRM-SSC Prize Committee

Louis-Paul Rivest (Chair)	CRM	2010-06-30
Hugh Chipman	SSC	2012-06-30
Richard J. Cook	SSC	2010-06-30
Paul Gustafson	SSC	2011-06-30
Bruce Smith	CRM	2010-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO:

• Winners of the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics
• See the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics page on the website of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM).

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Pierre Robillard Award Committee

Jean-François Angers(Président)	2010-06-30
Paramjit Gill	2012-06-30
Baojiang Chen	2010-06-30
K. C. Carriere	2012-06-30
Changbao Wu	2012-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO: Winners of the Pierre Robillard Award

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Lise Manchester Award Committee

David Bellhouse(Chair)	2012-06-30
David Andrews	2012-06-30
Louise Bourque	2012-06-30
Jim Zidek	2012-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO: Winners of the Lise Manchester Award

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SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work Committee

Christopher A. Field(Chair)	2011-06-30
John Petkau	2012-06-30
James Stafford	2012-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO: Winners of the SSC Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work

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Student Presentation Award Committee

Rhonda Rosychuk(Chair)	2012-06-30
Sylvia Esterby	2010-06-30
David Haziza	2011-06-30

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Committee on Membership

Donald McLeish* (Chair)	2010-06-30
Patrick J. Farrell	2010-06-30
Melody Ghahramani	2012-06-30
Russell Steele	2010-06-30
Julie Zhou	2010-06-30

*ex officio

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Committee on Women in Statistics

Julie Horrocks (Chair)	2011-06-30
Cynthia Bocci	2010-06-30
Joanna Flemming	2010-06-30
Nadia Ghazzali	2012-06-30
Susana Rubin-Bleuer(ISI Rep.)	2012-06-30
Leilei Zeng (Caucus Rep.)	2011-12-31

committee description

SEE ALSO: Committee website

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Public Relations Committee

Wendy Lou* (Chair)	SORA Rep.	2010-06-30
Paul Villeneuve	SSO Rep.	2010-06-30
Marc Bourdeau	SSM Rep.	2010-06-30
Alison Gibbs		2011-06-30

*ex officio

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Research Committee

Richard J. Cook(Chair)		2012-06-30
Derek Bingham		2011-06-30
Joanna Mills Flemming		2012-06-30
Louis-Paul Rivest		2012-06-30
Doug Wiens		2012-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO: position paper on the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

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Statistical Education Committee

Alison Gibbs (Chair)	2011-06-30
Rollin F. Brant	2010-06-30
Jean-Pierre Carmichael	2010-06-30
Veeresh Gadag	2010-06-30
Catherine Njue	2012-06-30
Kevin Thorpe	2010-06-30
Saumen Mandal	2012-06-30
Patricia Whitridge	2010-06-30

committee description

SEE ALSO: Statistical Education Committee website

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AusCan Scholar Committee

Jerald F. Lawless (Chair)	2010-12-31
Charmaine B. Dean	2010-12-31
Christopher A. Field	2010-12-31

committee description

SEE ALSO: The AusCan Scholar Program

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Committee on New Investigators

Yulia Gel (Chair)	2010-06-30
Juli Atherton	2010-06-30
Katherine Davies	2010-06-30
Genevieve Lefebvre	2010-06-30
Jason Nielsen	2010-06-30
Jeffrey Picka	2010-06-30
Matías Salibián-Barrera	2010-06-30

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Student Travel Awards Committee

Jason Loeppky(Chair)	2012-06-30
Mylène Bédard	2012-06-30
Asokan Mulayath Variyath	2012-06-30

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SSC Appointments to Other Organizations

PAGSE	Agnes Herzberg	2011-06-30
Canadian Consortium for Research	Shirley Mills	2012-12-31
CRM	Denis Larocque	2011-06-30
Fields	Michael J. Evans	2011-06-30
PIMS	Charmaine B. Dean	2011-06-30
BCCUPMS	Bruce Dunham	2012-06-30
CMS International Affairs Committee	Gail Ivanoff	2012-12-31
ASA Committee on Women in Statistics	Leilei Zeng	2012-12-31
ASA Committee on Meetings	Narayanaswamy (Bala) Balakrishnan	2012-12-31
JSM 2010 Joint Program Committee	Jiahua Chen
COPSS Executive Committee	Bovas Abraham	2010-06-30
COPSS Awards Committee	Brajendra Sutradhar	2012-09-30
COPSS R.A. Fisher Committee	Donald L. McLeish	2010-09-30
COPSS Elizabeth L. Scott Award Committee	Yulia Gel	2012-09-30
COPSS Presidents' Award Committee	Harry Joe	2010-08-31
COPSS Snedecor Award Committee	Pierre Dutilleul	2012-09-30
COPSS Florence Nightingale David Award Committee	Anne-Catherine Favre	2012-09-30

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