Dame Jilian Norma ('Jil') Matheson
, National StatisticianSitter in 2 portraits
Statistician Jil Matheson joined the Office for Population and Surveys in 1975. Subsequently, she has worked for the European and the World Health Organisation Union, going on to be appointed as Deputy Director in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 1998. In 2003 she moved to the Census Division of the ONS and worked on the design of the 2011 census, as the first woman to run the decennial population census. In 2008 Matheson became Director General for Statistics Delivery at the ONS.
Dame Jilian Norma ('Jil') Matheson
by Anita Corbin
chromogenic print, October 2011
NPG x137422
by Jillian Edelstein
chromogenic print, 21 February 2017
NPG x199774
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