John Jankowski has thirty-five years of experience in Science Technology Innovation (STI) statistics. From 1994-2021, he was responsible for the official U.S. Government's official statistics on R&D and innovation, including 10 nationally representative R&D, research facilities and innovation surveys of business, government agencies, higher education institutions and nonprofits. In that capacity, he provided overall guidance, direction and budgetary control for all phases of survey design, collection, tabulation, analysis and dissemination, including for R&D sample surveys of 45,000 businesses, 300,000 micro-businesses, and 8,000 nonprofit institutions; censuses of ~900 research-performing universities, all Federal agencies, and several hundred state government agencies. As NCSES Senior Economic Advisor, he was responsible for providing policymakers (including Congressional and Executive branch staff) and the media with reliable data and analyses on the Nation's R&D, innovation, and research facilities. He has extensive experience in conveying R&D/innovation statistics to technical, professional, and lay audiences.