Appointment of Dorothy Maney Tella as United States Representative on the Statistical Commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council

The President today announced his intention to appoint Dorothy Maney Tella to be Representative of the United States on the Statistical Commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. She will succeed Joseph W. Duncan.

Since 1983 she has served as Chief of the Statistical Policy Office and Chief Statistician in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget. Previously, she was proprietor of Dorothy M. Tella & Associates in 1981-1983; director of the Trends and Perspective Center at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in 1973-1981; senior research economist of the Georgetown University Income Maintenance Project in 1970-1973; senior associate of the Planning Research Corp. in 1968-1970; economist, Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, in 1967-1968; and economist, Office of Economic Research, Central Intelligence Agency, in 1961-1967.

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College (A.B., 1958) and Harvard University (A.M., 1961). She also attended the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, University of Paris, France. She is married and resides in McLean, VA. She was born October 23, 1936, in Madison, TN.