Jil Matheson served as National Statistician, Head of the Government Statistical Service and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority from 2009 until her retirement in 2014.
Her current activities include: Hon Secretary of the Academy of Social Sciences, member of the Royal Society’s Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education, member UK Committee on Research Integrity, and non-executive director of the Sports Ground Safety Authority.
She has, and continues to, advise various Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and other programmes. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.