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John James Pullinger (born 1 June 1959) was the National Statistician for the United Kingdom, serving in this role from 1 July 2014 until retiring on 30 June 2019. He was succeeded on an interim basis by Deputy National Statistician Jonathan Athow, and by Sir Ian Diamond on a permanent basis from October 2019. He became Chairman of the Electoral Commission on 1 May 2021.


Career

Pullinger was a statistician in the Central Statistical Office and later the
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from 1980, finally rising to Director of Social Statistics in 1996. In 2004 he became the Director-General of Information Services and Librarian of the
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. He was the President of the
Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. ...
for 2013–14. In 2014, Pullinger was appointed to replace Dame Jil Matheson as the British National Statistician and the
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-graded Chief Executive of the
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. As of 2015, Pullinger was paid a salary of between £150,000 and £154,999, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time. On May 1, 2021, Pullinger became Chairman of the Electoral Commission.


Education and honours

Pullinger was educated at
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, Dulwich, the
University of Exeter , mottoeng = "We Follow the Light" , established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter) , type = Public , ...
and
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. In the
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, Pullinger was appointed
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(CB) "for services to Parliament and voluntary service to the community through Great Culverden Park Ltd." In 2016, Pullinger was awarded an honorary degree from the
University of Exeter , mottoeng = "We Follow the Light" , established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter) , type = Public , ...
for outstanding achievements in the field of statistics and also received an honorary degree from the
University of Essex The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the ancient arms attributed to the Kingdom of Es ...
. In 2018, he received an Honorary Degree from the
University of the West of England The University of the West of England (also known as UWE Bristol) is a public research university, located in and around Bristol, England. The institution was know as the Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; it received university status in 1992 and ...
.


References

Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society 1959 births Living people Companions of the Order of the Bath English statisticians People educated at Alleyn's School Alumni of the University of Exeter Harvard Business School alumni Directors of the Office for National Statistics People associated with the University of Essex People associated with the University of the West of England, Bristol {{uk-statistician-stub