Dennis Trewin
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Dennis Trewin has been the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, since July 2000.
He was listed as one of Australia's Smart 100 in a 2003 poll run by the Australian magazine The Bulletin.
Prior to his current position, he was Deputy Australian Statistician from 1995 to 2000, and from 1992 to 1995 he was the Deputy Government Statistician in New Zealand.
He holds other senior appointments in Australia such as non-judicial member of the Australian Electoral Commission and an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University. He has held the office of President of the Statistical Society of Australia.
Internationally, in 2005 he completed a term as President of the International Statistical Institute having previously been Vice-President and President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians. He is a past editor of the International Statistical Review.
He is Chairman of the Global Executive Board at the World Bank, Chairman of the Asia/Pacific Committee of Statistics, and board member of Institute of Social Research.
| Preceded by: William McLennan |
Australian Statistician 2000–present |
Succeeded by: (none) |
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