Denise Lievesley

Who is Denise Lievesley?

Denise Anne Lievesley, CBE is a British social statistician and Professor of Statistics at King's College London as well as head of its School of Social Science & Public Policy. She has formerly been Chief Executive of the English Information Centre for Health and Social Care, Director of Statistics at UNESCO, in which capacity she founded the Institute for Statistics, and Director of what is now the UK Data Archive. While Director of the Data Archive, she also held the position of Professor of Research Methods at the University of Essex. She has served as a United Nations Special Adviser on Statistics, stationed in Addis Ababa.

She served as President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1999 to 2001, and has been President of the International Statistical Institute and the International Association for Official Statistics. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to social science.