Professor Denise Lievesley, a social statistician by training, was, until July 2007, the founding Chief Executive of the English Information Centre for Health and Social Care. Since then she has worked as a special advisor at the African Centre for Statistics of the UN based in Addis Ababa. In October 2008 she became Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s College London. Formerly she was Director of Statistics at UNESCO where she established its new Institute for Statistics.

Denise began her career as an official statistician specialising in survey sampling and subsequently conducting research on non-response and on panel surveys in the survey methods centre of SCPR. 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 is currently President of the International Statistical Institute a position she will hold until August 2009 and the first woman to hold this office. She has been the international representative on the Board of the American Statistical Association for the last three years. Denise chairs the methodology committee of the European Social Survey and remains active in the development of social research methods and in research ethics.

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