Biographical notes 2004

JOSÉ MIGUEL BERNARDO HERRANZ

José Miguel Bernardo Herranz. Ph. D (Mathematics) at University of Valencia (1974) and Ph. D (Statistics) at University College London (1976). Proffessor of Statistics at hte University of Valencia, Spain. Yale University Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Académico Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Ciencias de Madrid, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, Founder Co-President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis 1992-1994.

EDITH D. DE LEEUW

Edith D. de Leeuw, Ph.D., is associate professor of survey methodology at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and director of MethodikA Amsterdam, consultants in methodology and statistics. She was a Fulbright scholar with professor Dillman at the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center of Washington State University and visiting scholar of the Program on Social Statistics at UCLA. She is a fellow of the Joint Universities Institute for Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS).

Dr de Leeuw is associate editor of the Journal of Official Statistics and was executive secretary and president of the international research committee on logic and methodology of the International Sociological Association (ISA), and of the Section on Social Science of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research. She has organized both national and international conferences on survey methodology and statistics. She teaches at the International University College Utrecht and at the ISR summer school and has been a teacher at TES-courses for Official Statistics.