Dennis Trewin

Dennis John Trewin FASSA is an Australian former public servant, who was the Australian Statistician, the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between July 2000 and January 2007.
Trewin joined the ABS in 1966 as a statistics cadet. Between 1992 and 1995 he was the Deputy Government Statistician in Statistics New Zealand and a Deputy Australian Statistician from 1995 to 2000, when he was appointed as the Australian Statistician.
Trewin was the driving force behind the ABS's pioneering 'Measures of Australia's Progress', 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 held other senior appointments in Australia such as non-judicial member of the Australian Electoral Commission, a Director of the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare, a Commissioner for an Inquiry into the Not-for-Profit sector for the Productivity Commission, a Council member of the University of Canberra, a Trustee and Board member for ARIA and received a Centenary Medal in Recognition of his services to Australian and international statistics. He was elected to the Alumni Hall of Fame at the ANU School of Economics and Finance.