Warren Merkel serves as Vice President, Policy for the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB), where he leads ANAB’s public and international policy efforts. His responsibilities include engaging with stakeholders at the Federal, state, and local levels, and representing ANAB in international accreditation cooperations. Previously, Mr. Merkel was Chief of Standards Services in the Standards Coordination Office of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Mr. Merkel also co-convened the working groups that revised ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories and ISO/IEC 17060:2022, Conformity assessment—Code of good practice. Earlier in his NIST tenure, Mr. Merkel was Chief of the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP).