[2] Phillip Kott earned his BS in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974.
In 1978, Kott received his PhD in Mathematical Economics from Brown University at age 26.
He was recruited as an economist by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in November 1978 and worked there until 1984 when he was hired by U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
At the time of his retirement in 2008, Kott was the chief research statistician at NASS.
[7] Kott has written or collaborated on hundreds of papers advancing the science of survey methodology.