Daniel Goroff serves as Vice President and Program Director. He is a particularly passionate patron of rigorous and policy-relevant research in the social sciences, while also running the Sloan Research Fellowship Program that funds promising junior faculty in a variety of disciplines. During much of 2023, Goroff was on leave working 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. This was his third tour of duty at the White House. He has a continuing advisory role there and at NSF, where his previous title was Division Director for Social and Economic Sc