Board, Council and Office
Organisation and Governance
The International Statistical Institute is led by an Executive Committee, a Council and the Director of the Permanent Office located in The Hague, The Netherlands. Together, they are responsible for the implementation and progress of the activities based on the strategic priorities of the International Statistical Institute.
Meet The Team
- Senior Fellow, Italian National Research Council (CNR IMATI, Milano)
- Former President of European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) and International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS)
- ISI Vice President (2017-2021)
- Fellow of American Statistical Association (ASA), ISBA and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), ENBIS Honorary Member and Zellner Medal recipient
- Nalini Ravishanker is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Connecticut and serves as the Undergraduate Program Director. She holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
- Her research focuses on time series modeling, Bayesian dynamic modeling, survival analysis, predictive inference, and signal processing, with applications in environmental science, biomedicine, climate, and finance.
- Retired volunteer faculty at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) of the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and Senior Associate Researcher at the Society for the Development of Scientific Research (SCIENCE).
- President, International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS),
(2019-2021) - Editor, International Statistical Review (ISR), (2014-2022)
- Vice President, Inter-American Statistical Institute (IASI),
(2014-2016) - Council Member, Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE), (2010-2014)
- Professor Emerita, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine
- President, American Statistical Association, 2016
- Vice President, International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), (2011-2013)
- Chair, ISI Working Group on the International Year of Women in Statistics and Data Science,
(2019-2021)
- Ayşe Ayşin Bombaci Bilgin is an Australian statistician and statistics educator.
- Professor of mathematics and statistics at Macquarie University
- Was the president (2021–2023) of the International Association for Statistical Education.
- Her research explores applications of statistics in health sciences and learning and teaching in statistics.
- Private sector consultant working globally in partnership with the public, private and not-for-profit sectors on improving official statistics and other data systems, Monitoring and Evaluation, and embedding official statistics standards in wider international development.
- He led the International Relations functions at the UK’s Office for National Statistics, managed the office of the UK National Statistician, and worked on the production of Regional Statistics and National Accounts in the UK.
- Worked at the statistics division at the UN-ECE and extensively on high-leve
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is responsible for developing in consultation with the Council the policies and programmes of the ISI; implementing the policies and programmes of the ISI; administering ISI financial matters; determining membership fees for organisational and affiliated members; taking all final decisions on application for membership.
Council
The Council advises the Executive Committee on the policies and programmes of the International Statistical Institute. Together they participate in the long-term planning process, assist the Executive Committee with the implementation of policies and programmes, establishes and, when necessary, dissolves Committees and Special Interest Groups, and develop operating procedures for Committees and Special Interest Groups.
Permanent Office
The Permanent Office is composed of a Director and a number of staff members. The Permanent Office executes the strategic priorities of the ISI; is responsible for managing memberships, and carrying out finance administration. It is also in charge of connecting the ISI members, the ISI Executive Committee and Council, the ISI Associations, and Committees.