Director breakfast with John Pullinger UK National Statistician, Head of the Government Statistical Service and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority

Director breakfast with John Pullinger, UK National Statistician, Head of the Government Statistical Service and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority

John Pullinger is UK National Statistician, Head of the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.

He has executive responsibility for the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Early career
John started his career as an assistant statistician at the Department of Trade and Industry. He then moved to the Department of the Environment, responsible for statistics on local government revenues.

Following this he took up a post at the Office of Manpower Economics, heading the pay research team.

In 1992, John Pullinger became Director of Policy and Planning at the Central Statistical Office and led the creation of the Office for National Statistics.

Office for National Statistics
John later became a member of the ONS management board. He was actively involved in the development of statistical governance, which led to the creation of the Statistics Commission in 2000.

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