Official photo from ONS

Karen Hope Dunnell (born 16 June 1946) has been National Statistician, Registrar General and Director of the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom since 1 September 2005. Image File history File links Karen_Dunnell. ... Image File history File links Karen_Dunnell. ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the government executive agency charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the United Kingdom at national and local levels. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... National Statistician Directors of the UKs Office for National Statistics (ONS) also hold the title of National Statistician. ... The Registrar General is the Government official responsible for the registration of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales. ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the government executive agency charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the United Kingdom at national and local levels. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Education and Early Life

Born Karen Williamson in Los Angeles, USA, she moved to Britain when she was a young child and was educated at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls and Bedford College, London. Her father was a US serviceman during World War II and her mother, who is English, was a teacher. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is a selective grammar school in Maidstone, UK. It operates under the 11 plus exam system, in which students take an exam at the end of primary school in order to be accepted at a school. ... Bedford College was founded in London, England, in 1849 as a higher education college for the education of women. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Career

Karen Dunnell in New York City for UN Statistics Commission 2004

She started her career as a health care researcher with the Institute of Community Studies, where she wrote a book, Medicine Takers, Prescribers and Hoarders with Dr Ann Cartwright. She was then a lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health at St Thomas' 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, including a major one on disability, 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1155 KB) Summary Karen Dunnell in New york for 2004 UN conference photo by Jonathan Barker: no copyright issue Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1155 KB) Summary Karen Dunnell in New york for 2004 UN conference photo by Jonathan Barker: no copyright issue Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Institute of Community Studies based in East London is an urban studies think tank. ... Ann Cartwright (b. ... Saint Thomas’ Hospital. ... The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), was a fore-runner and constituent, with the UK Central Statistical Office, of the Office for National Statistics, in which they combined in 1996 under a single director who, from 2000 was also known as the National Statistician. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ... The Central Statistical Office was an UK organization which was merged with the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) in 1996 to form the Office for National Statistics (ONS) under a single director, who, from 2000 was also known as the National Statistician. ... Len Cook was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1949. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She then became a Group Director in Social Statistics in 2000 and took up a 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 designed to modernise ONS systems. As National Statistician, Karen Dunnell has accelerated^{[citation needed]} a policy of relocating the Office for National Statistics away from London to Newport, South Wales. This relocation policy, together with substantial expenditure cutbacks has resulted in morale problems and a high staff turnover rate in London^{[citation needed]}. In January 2007, Karen Dunnell announced the almost complete closure of the ONS's London offices by 2010^[1]. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ...

• Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford (1989–1993)

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Personal

Karen Dunnell has been married and divorced twice. Her husbands were Keith Dunnell (1969-76) and Professor Michael Adler (1979-94) (Professor Adler subsequently married Labour politician Baroness Jay). She has two adult daughters by her second marriage and one grand-daughter. She lives in London N1 and has a special fondness for a little place in the Var in SE France. Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, PC, is a British politician for the Labour Party. ... The fashionable London postal district of N1 covers the areas of Islington, Barnsbury, Canonbury, De Beauvoir Town and Hoxton. ... Var is a département of southern France. ...

References

1. ^ "ONS set to close down London HQ", new report on BBC website, 16 January 2007.

See also

• "The Integrity of Integers" (go to home page then search for Karen Dunnell), an interview with Karen Dunnell, Whitehall & Westminster World, 7 November 2006.