ISI Side Event: Statistical Leadership - the Role of National Statistical Institutes
| Date | 14 Feb 2022 |
| Time | 11:00 GMT+01:00 - 13:00 GMT+01:00 |
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| Instructor |
Ada van Krimpen
Stephen Penneck
Prof Ben Kiregyera (Uganda)
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| Registration fee | |
The ISI side event ‘Statistical Leadership – the Role of National Statistical Institutes’ will be held on 14 February 2022, at the occasion of the 53rd Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission. A panel of leading Official Statisticians will invite questions and lead the debate on the role of National Statistical Institutes in demonstrating leadership:
- nationally – within government and among the general public, and
- internationally – with international agencies.
The debate will cover the role of NSIs in working with national statistical societies, and in developing the leadership skills of statisticians. Examples will be taken from the contribution NSIs have made on public debates on COVID-19, on the population census and on sustainable indicators. The debate will highlight the importance of national governance frameworks to support the leadership role of NSIs.
The subject is relevant across the agenda of the 53rd UNSC session, but especially the discussions on sustainable development indicators, data stewardship, climate change statistics, Big Data and population censuses. The aim of the session is to share ideas and stimulate thoughts among heads of NSIs as to how best to develop the leadership role of their agency.
Moderator:
- Ada van Krimpen, ISI Director
Panelists:
- Stephen Penneck, ISI President and former Director General of the UK Office for National Statistics
- Gabriella Vukovich, ISI Vice-President and President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office
- Anil Arora, Chief Statistician of Canada
- Prof. Ben Kiregyera, International Consultant, Uganda
Instructors
About the instructor
Degree: Master of Law (Business Law and International Law) at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam 1993
Part time study while working at Faculty of Economics Erasmus University
Statistics Netherlands, Director of International Relations (1993-2009)
Co-chair TF for developing the European Statistical Law and European Statistics Code of Practice
IAOS Member
ISI Elected Member 2002
Director International Statistical Institute 2009-2022
Full story in ISLP August 2022 Newsletter - ISLP Newsletter Vol 14.1 August 2022
About the instructor
ISI President
About the instructor
Founding Director of the African Centre for Statistics at the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Uganda
Professor Ben Kiregyera is a Statistical Consultant with DevInfCo in Kampala, Uganda, a position he has held since 1994. His statistical consultancy has focused mainly on the African Development Bank and other international organizations. He has been heavily involved in the development of statistics in Africa especially in the areas of statistical capacity building, training, designing National Strategies for the Development of Statistics (NSDS), agricultural statistics, etc. He is also a recipient of the highly coveted Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis International Award for lifetime achievement in statistics and promotion of best statistical practice in developing countries.
Professor Kiregyera has been a member of various international the Executive Boards, Steering Committees, Scientific Advisory Committee. He is the founder of the African Statistical Journal and the African Statistical Newsletter. He has published widely on statistical challenges and developments in Africa and is the author of the book on Emerging Data Revolution in Africa: Strengthening the Statistics, Policy and Decision-making Chain.