Dr. Oliver Chinganya is a Zambian Chartered Statistician (since 1999), Chartered Scientist, and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He currently serves as the Director of the African Centre for Statistics at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The African Centre for Statistics’ main mission is to enable national statistical systems in Africa to produce high-quality statistics, data, and geospatial information to support sound, evidence-based decision-making in line with sustainable development, as well as regional and national priorities.

Dr. Chinganya also serves as Vice President of the International Statistical Institute. From 2018 to 2020, he was Acting Director of the Technology, Climate Change, and Natural Resource Management Division at UNECA. Prior to joining UNECA in 2016, he held other senior leadership roles, including Manager for the Statistical Capacity Building Division at the African Development Bank, Regional Advisor at the International Monetary Fund, and Deputy Director in charge of Research and Dissemination at the Zambia Statistical Office.