Career
Pullinger worked from 1980 to 1985 for the Department of Trade and Industry as a statistician [6] . From 1985 to 1991 he worked in the Department of the Environment [7] . From 1991 to 1992 he was Head of Pay Research at the Office of Manpower Economics [8] . From 1992 he was Director and Deputy Director at the Office of National Statistics [9] . From 2004 to 2014 he was Librarian of the House of Commons and Director General,Information Services [10] . He was the President of the Royal Statistical Society between 2013 and 2014. [11] . [13] [2] [14]
In 2014,Pullinger was appointed to replace Dame Jil Matheson as the UK National Statistician,Head of Governmental Statistical Service,Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority and Permanent Secretary of the ONS [15] . He held this role until 2019. During this period he also chaired the United Nations Commission responsible for setting global measurement standards [16] . [14] 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. [17]
From 2019 to 2021 he was president of the International Association for Official Statistics. [18] . On 1 May 2021,Pullinger became Chairman of the Electoral Commission. [5] [19]
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