About

Daniel Goroff is Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  He recently served as Deputy Director for Science and Society at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, reporting directly to the cabinet member who was the President’s Science Advisor.  Before that he was NSF’s Division Director for Social and Economic Sciences. Goroff is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Economics at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Before that, he taught at Harvard University for over twenty years.  He earned his B.A.-M.A. degree summa cum laude in Mathematics as a Borden Scholar at Harvard, an M.Phil. in Economics as a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge University, a Masters in Mathematical Finance as an HMC Scholar at Boston University, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Princeton University as a Danforth Fellow.  A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Goroff won the 2020 Links Lecture Award presented by the American Statistical Association. In 2023, he also won the Leadership Award of the International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation.