Robert Groves (academic)
| Robert Groves | |
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| 23rd Director of the United States Census Bureau | |
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In office July 15, 2009 – August 11, 2012 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Thomas Mesenbourg (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Mesenbourg (Acting) |
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| Born |
September 27, 1948 Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Dartmouth College University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Robert Martin Groves (born September 27, 1948) is an American sociologist and expert in survey methodology who has served as the Provost of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. since August 2012. He also served as the Director of the United States Census Bureau from 2009 to 2012.
Groves was born in Kansas City, Missouri, grew up in Metairie, Louisiana, and graduated in 1966 from De La Salle High School in New Orleans. In 1970, he graduated (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth College with an A.B. degree in sociology. He later earned two M.A. degrees (sociology and statistics, both 1973) and a PhD (sociology, 1975) from the University of Michigan.
For much of his career, starting in 1975, Groves worked as a research professor in survey methodology at the University of Michigan. He was also a researcher in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, housed at the University of Maryland, College Park. In August 2012, he became the Provost of Georgetown University, succeeding James J. O'Donnell.
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