Rosemary Marcuss, Deputy Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, is the winner of the 2008 Jeanne Griffith Mentoring Award. She has been the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis since she joined the agency in 1998. Before that, she served for fifteen years as the Assistant Director for Tax Analysis of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Rosemary started her career in Washington as a junior staff member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. Rosemary holds a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland. She was a National Science Foundation fellow during her graduate studies at the University of Maryland.

Rosemary maintains a special interest in making economic statistics and economic analysis accessible and comprehensible to as many people as possible. In 2005, she served as President of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE, the organization most clearly identified with representing the interests of the Federal Government statistical agencies and the needs of American business for timely and top quality economic statistics. In addition, Rosemary has served on the board of directors of the National Tax Association an the Washington D.C. National Economists Club. At present, she serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the George Washington University School of Public Policy and Public Administration.

Steve Landefeld, Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, says that during her time at BEA, Rosemary has made mentoring and career development a central focus of the Bureau’s work. Shortly after coming to BEA, Rosemary redesigned BEA’s mentoring program, making it a model for other units in the Department of Commerce wishing to develop their own programs.

Rosemary is continually redesigning BEA activities, from external outreach to internal presentations, to involve more junior staff. She works with individual staff to develop their presentations.

Each year, Rosemary also finds time to serve as a mentor at BEA. She has guided staff throughout the Bureau-ranging from accountants, to economists, to administrators-and consistently has been a major influence in these individual’s lives. All have benefited from the experiences and many have advanced to leadership roles with the Bureau or other agencies. Rosemary’s corporate and individual mentoring efforts have positively affected not only the entire Bureau but also other government statistical organizations.

Others who work with Rosemary state:

“Rosemary Marcuss has been an avid champion for the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ development programs and efforts. She has played an integral role in finding innovative ways to develop employees, as well as sought input from executive staff, division chiefs, managers, and employees to ensure that all programs are relevant to the need of our employees.”

“Over time, Rosemary was instrumental in not only helping me better focus my energies in some very fulfilling way, but also in helping me secure a number of rewarding professional assignments that literally changed my career. She is also dedicated to doing this for others. She enthusiastically supported BEA’s mentoring program, and earlier this year, Rosemary launched an improved, more comprehensive mentoring program for BEA.”

For more information about the application process for the 2009 award, contact Monica Clark at (703) 684-1221 ext 1858 or at monica@amstat.org.

The nomination cover sheet and guidelines form-or a photocopy of it-should be attached to a nomination memorandum or letter. A nomination form can be obtained by downloading it from http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEGform09.doc in MS Word format or http://www.amstat.org/sections/sgovt/JEGform09.pdf in Adobe pdf format.

All nominations should be mailed or emailed no later than March 27, 2009. Please send to: