Pali Lehohla

Pali Lehohla is a South African analyst and public educator who was the former Statistician-General of South Africa from 2000 and the chair of Africa Symposium for Statistical Development. He previously served as chair of the United Nations Statistics Commission, as well as Chair of Statistics Commission Africa. Lehohla currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of UK - South Africa incorporated, and Luxembourg Stock Exchange listed AI technology company Suppple Group with a market capitalization of £200 million

Early life and education

Lehohla was born on 27 September 1957. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch, Certificate of Toponymy from University of Pretoria and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Lesotho. In the early 1990s, he worked with United Nations Statistics Commission and chair for the Sub-Group on Harmonization of Statistics in Africa, as well as the chief advisor to the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee of the 2008 Population and Housing Census of Sudan.