Luigi Biggeri,

President of the Italian National Institute of Statistics since 1st June 2001.
Graduated in Economics, he attended the School of Business Administration and he has been full professor of Economic Statistics since 1980.
Currently, Prof. Biggeri runs the courses of Business Statistics and Statistical Methods for the evaluation of social and economic policies at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Florence.
In addition, today he holds the following appointments:
• President of the Italian Committee for the Evaluation of the University System at the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), since 2004;
• Vice-President of the UNECE Statistical Commission  since 2003;
• Member of the Scientific Committee of many national and international science-magazines.
In the past he held several appointments in the field of academic and official statistics:
• President of IASS, the International Association of Survey Statisticians from 2003 to 2005;
• President and vice-president of the Observatory for the Evaluation of the University System at the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), from 1996 to 2004;
• President of the Italian Society for Statistics from 1996 to 2000;
• Chairman  of the American Statistical Association Committee on International Relations in Statistics from 1996 to 2001;
• Chairman of the Commission for the Protection of Statistical Information within the Italian Council of Ministers, from 1996 to 1999;
• Chairman of the Board of World Numeracy Program ISI-UNESCO from 1993 to 1999;
• Vice-president of the International Statistical Institute-ISI  from 1991 to 1993;
• Project leader and scientific responsible for a series of projects (Fao/Italy/China Projects) referring to the organization and management of the 1° Census of Agriculture in China, from 1987 to 2000;
• Director of the Statistics Department at the University of Florence, from 1984 to 1989;

Prof. Biggeri has published books, monographs, articles and papers for more than 170 scientific works in the field of economic statistics. His research activity focused mainly on: organization of complex surveys, control of data quality, setting up price indexes, organization of the Statistical Survey System and the National Statistical System, protection of the privacy, diffusion of statistical information and statistical culture, methods for the evaluation of public interventions and evaluation of efficiency, effectiveness and quality of public services.
For the scientific results achieved, Prof. Biggeri was appointed Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Royal Statistical Society, and in 1993 he was awarded the "Adolphe Quetelet" Golden Medal.