Denise Anne Lievesley is a British social statistician. She has formerly been Chief Executive of the English

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, Director of Statistics at

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, in which capacity she founded the

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, and Director (1991–1997) of what is now the

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

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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

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from 1999 to 2001, and has been President of the

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(2007–2009) and the

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(1995–1997). She was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to social science. From 2015 to 2020 she was Principal of

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. She is an Honorary Fellow of

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British statisticians Living people Academics of the University of Essex Academics of King's College London Presidents of the International Statistical Institute Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Fellows of the American Statistical Association Women statisticians Principals of Green Templeton College, Oxford Women academic administrators {{UK-statistician-stub