Ivan Peter Fellegi, O.C., B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., is the Chief Statistician of Canada since 1985. The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means, Desiring a better country. ...

He joined Statistics Canada in 1957. Statistics Canada is the Canadian federal government bureau commissioned with gathering and analysing statistics about Canada. ...

In 1992, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 1998. He is an honorary member of the International Statistical Institute and an honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means, Desiring a better country. ... The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK. Founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, it has 7200 members in the UK and the rest of the world, around 1500 of whom are professionally qualified. ...

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• Profiles of Participants. URL accessed on December 26, 2005.