Robert Hauser

American Philosophical Society

Executive Officer

ROBERT M. HAUSER is Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. From 2010 through 2016, he was Executive Director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is Vilas Research Professor and Samuel Stouffer Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served from 1969 to 2010. He has been an investigator on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) since 1969. The WLS has followed the lives of more than 10,000 Wisconsin High School graduates of 1957 for more than 60 years and has become a national resource for bio-social research on health and retirement. While at the UW-Madison, he directed the Center for Demography of Health and Aging, the Institute for Research on Poverty, and the Center for Demography and Ecology. Recent publications include NASEM reports and journal publications about grade retention, academic achievement, educational expectations, social mobility, obesity, cognitive functioning, end-of-life planning, mortality, and genetic effects (and non-effects) on educational attainment, health, and cognitive functioning. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the American Philosophical Society.