Dan Kasprzyk spent more than four decades in federal statistics and survey research. He began as a mathematician at the National Security Agency and held positions at the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Census Bureau, where he managed the research and coordination program for the Survey of Income and Program Participation. He spent a decade at the National Center for Education Statistics, first as Chief of the Special Surveys and Analysis Branch and later as Program Director for Sample Survey Studies, directing the Schools and Staffing Survey, the Teacher Follow-Up Survey, the Private School Survey, the National Household Education Survey, and the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. He went on to serve as Vice President and Managing Director of Surveys and Statistics at Mathematica Policy Research and as Director of the Center for Excellence in Survey Research at NORC at the University of Chicago. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, he received the ASA Founders Award and served as an ASA Vice President. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from George Washington University.