Ken serves on the Editorial Board of PNAS, the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, and is currently the only member
from Social and Political Sciences. He also serves on
the U.S. National Committee for IIASA under the auspices of the NAS.
IIASA is the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
in Laxenburg, Austria. Along with these positions, Ken is a member
of the Steering Committee for Section U (Statistics) of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ken Wachter received the Distinguished Service Award of the Division of
Social Sciences, UC Berkeley, on 20 May 2008. It was presented
by Dean Jon Gjerde, with Vice Chancellor George Breslauer attending.
About thirty students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Department
of Demography joined the celebration. To our great distress,
Dean Gjerde died not long afterwards. In July 2009, after eleven years
as Chair of Demography, Ken was succeeded by Mike Hout.
Ken completed six years as chair and nine years as member of the National
Research Council's Committee on Population in October 2008. He was
succeeded by Linda Waite; Gene Hammel was CPOP's first chair.
Ken continues to serve on the Aging Advisory Committee for the
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
of the National Research Council.
