Dennis Trewin

Dennis J. Trewin was the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between July 2000 and January 2007.^[1][2]

Trewin joined the ABS in 1966 as a Statistics cadet.^[3] Between 1992 and 1995 he was the Deputy Government Statistician in Statistics New Zealand ^[4] and a Deputy Australian Statistician from 1995 to 2000, when he was appointed as the Australian Statistician.^[5]

Dennis Trewin was the driving force behind the ABS's pioneering 'Measures of Australia's Progress' (MAP), a new system of integrated national progress measurement, linking economic, social, environmental and governance dimensions of progress, a project which gained wide respect among other national statistical offices and helped bring about the OECD's Global Project, 'Measuring the Progress of Societies'.--

He holds other senior appointments in Australia such as non-judicial member of the Australian Electoral Commission and an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University. He has held the office of President of the Statistical Society of Australia.^[5]

Internationally, in 2005 he completed a term as President of the International Statistical Institute having previously been Vice-President and President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians. He is a past editor of the International Statistical Review.^[5] He is Chairman of the Global Executive Board at the World Bank, Chairman of the Asia/Pacific Committee of Statistics, and board member of Institute of Social Research.^[5]

Trewin holds honorary life memberships of the International Statistical Institute and the Statistical Society of Australia.^[6] He was listed as one of Australia's Smart 100 in a 2003 poll run by the Australian magazine The Bulletin.^[7]

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