Daniel Goroff is Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, where he champions rigorous, policy-relevant research in the social sciences and directs the Sloan Research Fellowship Program supporting outstanding early-career scholars across disciplines. He has served multiple tours at the White House, most recently as Deputy Director for Science and Society at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and previously as Division Director for Social and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation.

A mathematician and economist by training, Goroff spent twenty years at Harvard, earning Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Award for excellence in teaching. His research spans decision-making under uncertainty, the mathematics of privacy, and the economics of science.