Pali Lehohla

Mr Pali Lehohla was appointed to his current position in November 2000. He holds a BA with a double major in Economics and Statistics, and a postgraduate diploma in population studies. He has also completed a senior leadership programme with the business schools of the University of Witwatersrand and Harvard. Mr Lehohla was a chief director for Demography, Censuses and Household Surveys at Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) where he was responsible for South Africa’s first post-apartheid population census conducted in 1996. In 1998 Mr Lehohla was deployed by the United Nations to Cambodia to assess the country’s readiness to undertake its first census after almost 30 years.

Under his leadership, Stats SA hosted the 2006 Africa Symposium on Statistical Development which evaluated steps taken by African countries to prepare for the 2010 round of population and housing censuses, launched the maths4stats campaign to encourage the development of mathematics education as a central bedrock for statistics, and hosted the 57th session of the International Statistical Institute.