Luigi Biggeri

Luigi Biggeri (64) has been the President of Istat since 1st June 2001.

In 1963 he graduated in Economics at the University of Florence where he began his research activities.
 
Since 1980 he has been a Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Florence and has published over 100 scientific works in the field of economic statistics.

He has been appointed Chairman of the Association for Survey Statisticians and Deputy-Chairman of the Italian Committee for the evaluation of the university system.
Since 1996 he has been a member of the ISTAT Council.

From 1993 to 1996 Luigi Biggeri chaired the Italian Society for Statistics while from 1996 to 1999 was the President of the Commission for Guaranteeing Statistical Information in Italy. In the years from 1987 to 2000 he co-ordinated, as scientific responsible, a series of projects aiming at planning and implementing the first agricultural census in China.

In 1993 Mr Biggeri was awarded the “Adolphe Quetelet” Golden Medal for his international statistical activity and the scientific results he achieved; in 1994 he was appointed Fellow of the American Statistical Association.