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Who Counts?: The Politics and Policy Implications of the 2010 Census Baker Center luncheon featuring Charles Louis Kincannon, former director of the US Census Bureau February 22, 11:30 am – 1:00 p.m. Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy Toyota Auditorium $15 for lunch RSVP by Feb. 15 to 974-0931 or Betsy Harrell at [log in to unmask] As the former director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Mr. Kincannon will discuss the political and policy implications of this year’s decenniel census. Information collected in the census are crucial in apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and deciding how more than $400 billion dollars of federal funding each year is spent on infrastructure and services such as hospitals, job training centers, schools, senior centers, public works projects and emergency services. He will also discuss how the census counts people and whether to count immigrants (documented or not), where to count prisoners, and how to deal with university students, American resident overseas, or persons with residences in two states. Mr. Kincannon began his career at the US Census Bureau in 1963 after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1975, he joined the staff of the Office of Management and Budget, where he worked on statistical and regulatory policy. He also served as the statistical liaison to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller’s office and provided administrative leadership that supported the successful implementation of the first Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980. He returned to the Census Bureau in September 1981 and was appointed as deputy director and chief operating officer in January 1982 by President Reagan’s first director of the Census Bureau, Bruce Chapman. He served as deputy director to John G. Keane in the Reagan administration and Barbara Everitt Bryant in the George H. W. Bush administration. Kincannon served as acting director from July 1983 to March 1984 and again from January to December 1989, during which time he directed the final preparations for the 1990 census. Throughout his tenure with the federal government, Mr. Kincannon received several awards recognizing his contributions, including the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Service and the Department of Commerce Gold Medal. In October 1992, Mr. Kincannon was appointed as the first chief statistician in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He coordinated the organization’s statistical programs and advised the OECD secretary general on statistical policy. He left this post in June 2000 to return to the United States. In 2001 he was appointed as director of the US Census Bureau by President George W. Bush and served in that capacity until his retirement in 2008. Amy K. Gibson, Ph.D. Director of Communications and Public Programming Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 865-974-3816 (o) 865-363-9605 (m)