Denise Lievesley is a British social statistician and Professor of Statistics at King's College London

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

 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

UNESCO

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, in which capacity she founded the Institute for Statistics, and Director (1991-1997) of what is now the UK Data Archive

UK Data Archive

The UK Data Archive is a national centre of expertise in data archiving in the United Kingdom . It houses the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK....

 (known as the ESRC Data Archive and as the Data Archive during her tenure). While Director of the Data Archive, she also held the position of Professor of Research Methods at the University of Essex

University of Essex

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. She has served as a United Nations Special Adviser on Statistics, stationed in Addis Ababa.

She served as President of the Royal Statistical Society

Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...

 from 1999 to 2001, and has been President of the International Statistical Institute

International Statistical Institute

The International Statistical Institute is a professional association of statisticians. The Institut International de Statistique or International Statistical Institute was founded in 1885 although there had been international congresses from 1853.. The Institute publishes a variety of books and...

 (2007–2009) and the International Association for Official Statistics.