CHSS Alumni Service Award - Orvis

Karin Orvis

MA Psychology '01, PhD '07

Karin Orvis has served in senior executive-level roles across the U.S. Federal Government, strategically leading multidisciplinary, interagency teams in designing, implementing, and evaluating enterprise-wide policies and programs. Throughout these roles, she strategically leveraged data collection methods, statistical analysis, research, and program evaluation to drive policymaking decisions, and directed and oversaw interdisciplinary research to shape future policies and programs. She currently serves as the chief of statistical and science policy in the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). She is responsible for coordination of the U.S. Federal Statistical System to ensure it provides impartial, trusted federal statistics foundational to informing decisions across the public and private sectors.  She also oversees implementation of OIRA’s science policy responsibilities, and is charged with ensuring the quality, objectivity, utility and integrity of the information disseminated by Federal agencies. 
 
Orvis has also served as the chief statistician of the United States and an assistant professor at Old Dominion University, as well as worked with the private sector employee selection, training, leader development, and organizational effectiveness programs. She holds a doctorate and a master of arts in industrial/organizational psychology from George Mason University, and a bachelor of science in psychology from Michigan State University.