Jennifer Park
Senior Consultant at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJennifer Park is a senior consultant and PhD demographer with nine years of focused experience advancing U.S. federal and international statistical policy to improve national and global official statistics. She leads cross-agency teams and country-led initiatives—working with OMB, US statistical agencies, UN regional commissions, the UN Statistical Division, World Bank, and IMF—to design practical, transparent, and scalable solutions using open-source tools. Her work spans modernization of the federal statistical system, SDG roadmaps, machine-readable metadata translation (reducing Russian translation time by 35%), and secure data linkage and shared services for national research infrastructure. Based in Washington, D.C., she blends technical rigor in morbidity, mortality, family, and survey methodology with policy leadership and operational program delivery. Jennifer is notable for converting regional statistical innovations into global practice and for pairing deep methodological expertise with hands-on implementation and partnership-building.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology (Demography), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology (Demography) at Brown UniversityDIS, European Commission, DIS, European Commission at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenPost Doc, Mind, Brain and Education, Post Doc, Mind, Brain and Education at Harvard Graduate School of EducationBachelor of Arts - BA, Majors: Sociology, Economics Minor: Public Policy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Majors: Sociology, Economics Minor: Public Policy at Wells College
Github Skills (4)
sustainability10
climate-change10
metadata10
translation10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JenPark9/sdg-indicators
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 1 month
worldbank/sdg-metadata
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
SDG Metadata Translation Pilot
Contributions:1731 commits, 436 PRs, 779 pushes in 2 years 9 months
translationsdgpilotmetadata
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