Denise Lievesley

This social statistician by training, is Chief Executive of the English Information Centre for Health and Social Care which is based in Leeds.  Formerly she was Director of Statistics at UNESCO where she established its new Institute for Statistics.  The Institute was relocated from Paris to Montreal in 2001 and so Denise lived in Montreal for four years before returning to the UK.

Denise began her career as an official statistician specialising in survey sampling.  Later she became the Director of the International Statistical Institute and then the Director of the UK Data Archive as well as Professor of Research Methods in the Mathematics Department at Essex University.

She has an honorary doctorate from City University in London and is a fellow of University College London.  She was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1999 to 2001. She will be President of the International Statistical Institute from 2007 to 2009, the first woman to hold this office.  She is currently the international representative on the Board of the American Statistical Association.