Pali Lehohla

Dr. Pali Jobo Lehohla is the former Statistician-General of South Africa. He has served as co-chair of PARIS21 and the chair of the United Nations Statistics Commission. He was the founding chair of the Statistics Commission of Africa (StatCom Africa) and chairs the African Symposium for Statistical Development (ASSD). He was the vice president of the International Statistics Institute (ISI), and sponsors the Young African Statistician (YAS) movement. He served as one of on the 25-member panel on Data Revolution appointed by the UN Secretary General and has recently been appointed to the Independent Accountability Panel for the health of women, children, and adolescents. Dr. Lehohla has been a forceful advocate for improving the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems in Africa. He was recognized by his alma mater, the University of Ghana, for his contribution to the development of statistics in 2015 and was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Stellenbosch in the same year.