December 15, 2010, 4-5pm in LT104 in the New Law School
Denise Lievesley
School of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London, UK
Title:  The role of an International Statistician

Asbtract:  Denise will use her experience of working in UNESCO and the UN Economic Commission for Africa to explore how statisticians can exploit their skills and expertise effectively to ensure that development strategies are pro poor and pro equity. Many papers in statistical journals have addressed the work of national official statisticians but few have examined the work of statisticians in international, supranational or bilateral agencies. Denise will redress this imbalance by highlighting some of the dilemmas facing international statisticians. She aims to raise consciousness of the role of statisticians employed in an international context, to explain some of the constraints under which they work, to address principles which ought to govern the activities of statisticians generally and to evaluate the relevance of such principles to international statisticians in particular.