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Bureau of Economic Analysis

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73rd Annual Honor Award Recipients

 

Group Gold Medal – Customer Service

Benjamin Mandel, Mark Ludwick, Jeffrey Young, Jeffrey Barnett, Jennifer Lee, Abe Dunn, Matthew VonKerczek, Marcelo Yoon, Elizabeth Cologer, Kyle Hood

For extraordinary performance in developing new ways to meet the public's need for more and faster data about economic disruptions during a pandemic. For investigative excellence involving the Chinese theft of trade secrets involving export-controlled syntactic foam.


Group Gold Medal – Organizational Development  

Thomas Howells, Pamela Kelly, Edward Morgan, Mauricio Ortiz, David Wasshausen, Cliff Woodruff

For transformative organizational change that enabled BEA economists to become the world's first to produce national, industry, and state GDP at once.


Group Silver Medal – Customer Service

Dennis Fixler, Kyle Hood, Elizabeth Driscoll, Ryan Howley, Nicholas Martinez, Christopher Gohrband, David Lenze, Sarah Osborne, Sharon Panek   

For innovations in measuring billions of dollars in international bank fees, improving the accuracy and detail of trade and GDP statistics.