Denise Silva is retired and voluntary Principal Researcher of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and Senior Associate Researcher at the Society for the Development of Scientific Research (SCIENCE). 

She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Southampton and has been working as a survey methodologist for more than 35 years as well as a lecturer at graduate and undergraduate levels. 

Denise was president (2019-2021) of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS), is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and is an editor of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS. 

Her main areas of interest are survey methods, official/public statistics, small area estimation and time series analysis.