S3RI Special Seminar - Statistics Making an Impact - John Pullinger (UK Statistics Authority) Seminar
- Time:
- 18:00 - 20:00
- Date:
- 25 April 2017
- Venue:
- Room 1067, Building 85, Murray Building, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Dankmar Boehning on 023 8059 6712 or email D.A.Bohning@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
John Pullinger reprises and reflects on his RSS Presidential Address delivered in 2013. He said then "Although in today's world the information landscape is confused, there is an opportunity for statistics that is there to be seized." Four years on, statistics are more crucial than ever before in how we all make decisions.
Speaker information
John Pullinger, UK Statistics Authority. John was appointed as the UK National Statistician, Head of the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority in July 2014. The latter role includes executive responsibility for the Office for Nationals Statistics (ONS). Before that, from 2004, he was the 14th Librarian of the House of Commons. As a member of the House of Commons Management Board, John has worked closely with the Speaker of the House of Commons and several committees in both Houses to develop the connection between Parliament and the public. John has chaired a number of advisory boards concerned with economic and statistical issues.