Anil Arora

Anil Arora is a Canadian former civil servant who served as the Chief Statistician of Canada from September 19, 2016 to March 31, 2024. He was the twelfth Chief Statistician since Statistics Canada was founded as the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in 1918. He first joined Statistics Canada in 1988 and has since overseen major transformations such as computer-assisted interviewing, online publishing and multi-dimensional output databases, and more recently the migration of the agency's data holdings to the secure cloud. He led the agency during the challenging COVID-19 pandemic as it conducted the 2021 census and enhanced its statistical programs.

Prior to his role as Chief Statistician, Arora served in Assistant Deputy Minister roles for Natural resources Canada and Health Canada after spending over 20 years working for Statistics Canada. He is a sought-after public speaker, and has made several prominent speeches and presented at dozens of conferences, both domestically and internationally. Provided by Wikipedia