John Pullinger: Difference between revisions
Necrothesp (talk | contribs) per original; see Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography/2019 archive#Request for comment: Size of post-nominals; "the status quo ante should remain with the template default at 85% but with no prohibition against using a different size. It is also clear that there is no consensus that either size is harmful or otherwise problematic..."; should not be changed from that originally used in the article, which was 100% |
JLo-Watson (talk | contribs) Updated Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
{{Infobox officeholder |
{{Infobox officeholder |
||
| name = John James Pullinger |
| name = John James Pullinger |
||
| office = [[ |
| office = [[National Statistician|United Kingdom National Statistician]] |
||
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Bath|CB]] |
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Bath|CB]] |
||
| predecessor = [[Jil Matheson|Dame Jil Matheson]] |
| predecessor = [[Jil Matheson|Dame Jil Matheson]] |
||
Revision as of 20:15, 15 March 2021
John James Pullinger | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom National Statistician | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 30 June 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | David Cameron Theresa May |
| Minister for the Cabinet Office | Francis Maude Matthew Hancock Ben Gummer Damian Green David Lidington Oliver Dowden |
| Preceded by | Dame Jil Matheson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 June 1959 |
John James Pullinger CB (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.[1][2] He was succeeded on an interim basis by Deputy National Statistician Jonathan Athow,[3] and by Sir Ian Diamond on a permanent basis from October 2019.[4]He is now the canddiate to lead the Electoral Commission (United Kingdom).[5]
Career
Pullinger was a statistician in the Central Statistical Office and later the Office for National Statistics 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 House of Commons.[6] He was the President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2013–14.[7][2]
In 2014, Pullinger was appointed to replace Dame Jil Matheson as the British National Statistician and the Permanent Secretary-graded Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority. 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.[8]
Education and honours
Pullinger was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich, the University of Exeter and Harvard Business School.[6][2] In the New Year Honours for 2014, Pullinger was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).[9]
In July 2016, Pullinger was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Exeter for outstanding achievements in the field of statistics.
References
- ^ Spence, Peter (12 May 2014). "Meet John Pullinger: The UK's new national statistician". City A.M. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ^ a b c A & C Black (2015). PULLINGER, John James (online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ "Announcement of an interim National Statistician". UK Statistics Authority. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ^ "Ian Diamond appointed as UK's National Statistician". UK Statistics Authority. 6 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ^ "Parliamentlive.tv". parliamentlive.tv. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ a b "New president takes over" (PDF). RSS News. Vol. 41, no. 1. Royal Statistical Society. February 2013. pp. 1 & 3.
- ^ "John Pullinger - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
- ^ "Senior officials 'high earners' salaries as at 30 September 2015 - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
- ^ "The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60728 p.1". 31 December 2013.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
