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David Rhind was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The City University in London until July 2007. A Fellow of the Royal Society and an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, he was until 1998 the Director General of Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping organisation and a government department. He is a non-executive director on the Bank of England's Court of Directors, has been a member of the Economic and Social Research Council and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS). In past times, he was centrally involved in building or using major statistical databases, notably of census data. He was appointed to succeed Sir John Kingman as chairman in May 2003. |
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Sir Derek Wanless is Vice-Chairman of the Statistics Commission. He is chairman of Northumbrian Water Group plc and a member of the Board for Actuarial Standards. In 2002 he reported on UK health services to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and , in 2004, on Public Health to the Prime Minister, Chancellor and Secretary of State for Health. As a Senior Associate of the King's Fund, in 2006 he wrote the Wanless Social Care Review and, in September 2007, a further review of health services. He has also advised the Welsh Assembly Government. He worked for NatWest Bank for 30 years and was its Group Chief Executive for seven years. He has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and qualified as a Member of the Institute of Statisticians (MIS). He was appointed vice-chairman of the Statistics Commission in July 2004. |
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Ian Beesley is a retired senior partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers who now runs his own strategy consultancy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and of the British Institute of Management. As a consultant he worked with organisations in the media and arts, defence, UK and foreign public sector and with international agencies. Before joining PWC in 1986, he was Head of the Prime Minister's Efficiency Unit. He started his career in the Central Statistical Office working in the fields of balance of payments, national accounts and monetary policy. He has an MA in politics, philosophy and economics, and a Post Graduate Diploma in statistics, both from Oxford University. |
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Colette Bowe is the chairman on the Ofcom Consumer Panel and a board member of Axa Framlington, Morgan Stanley Bank International and Electra private equity plc. She is the chairman of the Council of Queen Mary University of London and also a member of the Council of Management of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. She has a PhD in Economics. |
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Joly Dixon has been chairman of the Board of Governors, Indirect Tax Authority for Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2003. Prior to this he spent nearly 30 years at the European Commission, holding a variety of senior posts including: principal advisor to the Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs, working mainly on EU enlargement and relations with the Balkans; Director for International Affairs, leading the team advising on the economies of candidate countries and other main economic partners; and Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in the UN’s Mission in Kosovo, where he was in charge of economic reconstruction. He was also special advisor to European Commissioner Pascal Lamy from 2003-2004. His career began as a lecturer in economic statistics and econometrics at York and Exeter Universities. |
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Isabelle Low became a member of the Accounts Commission for Scotland in 2001 and has been its deputy chair since 2003, also chairing its Performance Audit Committee until December 2007. She is currently also a board member of the Audit Scotland Board (chairing its Audit Committee), the Scottish Consumer Council and the David Hume Institute; and previously was a panel member of the Financial Director of the Year Awards and a board member of the State Hospitals Board for Scotland. From 1997 to 2001 she held senior posts in the Scottish Executive, including: director of 21st Century Government Group, leading the process of modernising government Scotland-wide; Head of Land Use Division; and Head of Constitutional Policy Division. Prior to that she spent 20 years at the Scottish Office, where her roles included: Head of Management and Organisation Division; Director of Health Care for the NHS in Scotland; and Head of Employment Division. |
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Janet Trewsdale was, until 2005, chairman of the Northern Ireland Economic Council and senior lecturer in Economics at The Queen's University of Belfast. She is a Chartered Statistician. She is a past Vice-President of the RSS and member of the Statistics Advisory Committee (NI). She represented the RSS on the Statistics Users' Council for 19 years. |
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Martin Weale is the director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and has written widely on economic statistics. He previously lectured in Economics at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of Clare College. Before that he worked in the National Statistical Office in Malawi. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and Treasurer of the Alzheimer's Research Trust. The European Commission has recently adopted proposals from a project he led for producing prompt estimates of economic growth in the Euro Area. He holds an Sc. D. in Economics from Cambridge University. |
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