About

Daniel Goroff is Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and previously 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 is the President’s Science Advisor. He has a continuing advisory role there and at NSF, where his previous title was 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. 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. He also completed an Executive Education Program for Nonprofit Leaders at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2013. Goroff has presented Congressional testimony about science and economic policy before both the House and the Senate. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he helped found the Science Philanthropy Alliance, the Research on Research Initiative, and the Societal Experts Action Network. He is a tireless advocate for research rigor and reproducibility, for evidence-based policymaking, and for accountable institutional innovation—especially concerning diversity and inclusiveness. For his support of research on data science and economic measurement, 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.