Professor Włodzimierz Okrasa is a Head of the Research Methods and Evaluation Unit at the Institute of Sociology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (UKSW); Advisor to the President of the Central Statistical Office and Editor in Chief “Statistics in Transition new series”. In the 70s and 80s he worked in the Polish Academy of Sciences, then in the American universities (1988-1990) and in the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (1990-1991). In 1991-1993 he was a Program Director in the Social Science Research Council, N. Y. He then worked at the World Bank in Washington, DC (1994-2000), including modernization of household surveys in ‘countries in transition’. Next (2000-2003) he headed the Department of Social Sciences at the European Science Foundation. Elected member of the International Statistical Institute; Vice-President of the Polish Statistical Association; In the years 2009-2014 Evaluator of the EC Framework Program (FP7) and a member of the OECD Accession Group.
