Emmanuel Sikali spent twenty years at the National Center for Education Statistics, most recently as Acting Chief of the Assessments Division’s Reporting and Dissemination Branch, where he led the team responsible for releasing NAEP results. He served as federal project officer for EdSurvey, the open-source R package suite used internationally to analyze NAEP, TIMSS, PIAAC, and ECLS data, and founded the first federal center for process data — the time-stamped record of how students interact with digital assessments. He directed NCES’s annual training program for secondary analysts and led the agency’s work applying generative AI to assessment reporting and scoring. He has advised education ministries in Zambia and South Africa, taught graduate statistics and econometrics at George Washington University, and holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University.