RSS Oxford Event - Denise Lievesley  - 28 June 2017

Denise Lievesley speaks to RSS Oxford

Please join us on Wednesday 28 June 2017 for our next event where our speaker will be Denise Lievesley.

Where: Green Templeton College, 43 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HG

What:   4-5pm: Talk by Denise Lievesley

             5-6pm: Tea/Coffee

Measuring the world

Denise will draw on her experience of working as a statistician in the UN system to discuss the problems of gathering harmonised data from across countries with very different levels of statistical expertise and resources.  She will discuss how statistics can help us to monitor the progress towards internationally agreed goals and how statistics can help countries learn from one another.   Denise has a particular interest in the topic of trust in official data and so she will talk about some ways in which the level of trust might be improved.

Short Biography

Denise Lievesley took up her role as Principal of Green Templeton College on 1 October 2015.

Before coming to Oxford, she was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science and Public Policy and Professor of Social Statistics at King’s College London from 2008.  Formerly she has been Chief Executive of the English Health and Social Care Information Centre, Director of Statistics at UNESCO, where she founded the Institute for Statistics, and Director (1991-1997) of the UK Data Archive. She has served as a United Nations Special Adviser on Statistics, stationed in Addis Ababa.

Denise served as President of the Royal Statistical Society (1999 – 2001), and as President of the International Statistical Institute (2007 - 2009) and the International Association for Official Statistics (1995 - 1997).

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Best Wishes,

RSS Oxford Committee