Dr Pali Lehohla is a former board member of the Institute of Economic Justice at Wits University. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Johannesburg. He is the former Statistician-General of South Africa, a position he held from 2000 to 2017. He is a former Chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission. He was the founding chair of the Statistics Commission of Africa (StatCom Africa) and chaired the African Symposium for Statistical Development. He was the Vice-President of the International Statistics Institute. He served as one of the 25-member panel on data revolution appointed by the UN Secretary General. He is a research associate at Oxford University and consultant at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. He is a founder of the Pan-African Institute of Evidence.