4 August 2005
The Prime Minister, with the agreement of the Chancellor of Exchequer, has approved the appointment of Karen Dunnell as National Statistician and Director of the Office for National Statistics from 1 September. Len Cook is to return to New Zealand.
Notes for Editors
Karen Dunnell started her career as a health care researcher with the Institute of Community Studies and then St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School. She joined the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) in the mid 1970s carrying out a wide range of national surveys and managing medical statistics.
When OPCS merged with the Central Statistical Office to form the ONS she became the Director of Demography and Health Statistics. She later moved to a central post to help launch National Statistics and plan the arrival of Len Cook , the first National Statistician in 2000.
She then became a Group Director in Social Statistics in 2000 and took up her present post on the ONS Executive in 2002. She was responsible for setting up the new " Sources" Directorate , bringing together household and business surveys , the infrastructure that supports them and planning for the 2011 census. She has also launched the ONS Statistical Modernisation Programme.
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