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Luigi Biggeri has been the President of Istat since 1st June
2001.
In
1963 he graduated in Economics at the University of Florence
where he began his research activities.
Since 1980 he has been a Professor of Economic Statistics
at the University of Florence and has published over 100 scientific
works in the field of economic statistics.
He
has been appointed Chairman of the Association for Survey
Statisticians and Deputy-Chairman of the Italian Committee
for the evaluation of the university system.
Since 1996 he has been a member of the ISTAT Council.
From
1993 to 1996 Luigi Biggeri chaired the Italian Society for
Statistics while from 1996 to 1999 was the President of the
Commission for Guaranteeing Statistical Information in Italy.
In the years from 1987 to 2000 he co-ordinated, as scientific
responsible, a series of projects aiming at planning and implementing
the first agricultural census in China.
In
1993 Mr Biggeri was awarded the “Adolphe Quetelet”
Golden Medal for his international statistical activity and
the scientific results he achieved; in 1994 he was appointed
Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
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