Dr Pali Lehohla is the Director of Economic Modelling Academy (EMA) which aims to empower bureaucrats, civil society, academia and corporates in the use, applications and policy engagements through the use of integrated web-based tools of economic scenario setting, quantification, monitoring and evaluation. He is a board member of IEJ and that of the Foundation for Human Rights. He is the former Statistician-General of South Africa, a position he held from 2000 up to 2017. He was co-chair of PARIS21 and the Chair of the United Nations Statistics Commission. He was the founding chair of the Statistics Commission of Africa (StatCom Africa) and chaired the African Symposium for Statistical Development (ASSD). He was the Vice President of the International Statistics Institute (ISI). He served as one of the twenty-five-member panel on Data Revolution appointed by the UN Secretary General. Dr Lehohla has been a forceful advocate for improving the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems in Africa. He consulted extensively in the in conflict, out of conflict and fragile states on matters statistics. Since 2018 he became a Research Associate at Oxford University and Professor of Practice at the University of Johannesburg. Since September 2002 to date he has been a weekly columnist in the Business Report, and since May 2022 to-date he is a weekly columnist in the Sunday Times Daily Online and regular contributor to leadership magazines.