Cathryn Ashley-Jones,

Cathryn is the Deputy Government Statistician at Statistics New Zealand and is responsible for the Social and Population Statistics portfolio.  This portfolio includes the leadership of the Population Census and an expanding new Programme of Official Social Statistics which is a ten year whole-of –government programme for the development of social statistics.  Cathryn joined Statistics New Zealand in 2004, following a number of years in senior management in government.  This began in the New Zealand Treasury, working on resource law reforms, financial management issues, and Maori grievance settlements.  She then moved to the Ministry of Health and led the strategic advice on long term funding and health services policy issues.  In 2000 Cathryn transferred to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet where she advised the Prime Minister on health policy issues.

Cathryn began her career in independent economic research companies, undertaking a range of public and private sector economic research and forecasting work. Cathryn has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Statistics and Honours in Economics from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.