Mr. Donal GARVEY - předseda irské statistiky
Mr Donal GARVEY
Director-General, Central Statistics Office, Ireland
Donal Garvey (born 1947) is a graduate of University College Cork, with a BSc and MSc in Mathematics and Statistics. He also has an MSc (Management) degree from Trinity College, Dublin.
Mr Garvey, who is a career civil servant, joined the CSO as a Statistician in November 1968. Initially, he gained considerable experience over a range of short-term and structural statistics for
Production Industry. Later, he worked as a Statistician on the Census of Population (usually taken every 5 years in Ireland).
In January 1981 he was appointed Senior Statistician (i.e. Head of Division) with responsibility for Demographic, Labour Market and Social Statistics. He was involved inter alia in the organization and management of a number of Censuses of Population; the introduction of the annual Labour Force Survey; the compilation and publication of population projections; and a range of fertility, mortality and migration studies.
In 1989 he was appointed a Director of the Office and was involved with Macroeconomic statistics, including the development of survey based Balance of Payments statistics, for a few years. He coordinated the decentralisation of about 75 % of the CSO from Dublin to Cork in 1994.
Mr Garvey was appointed Director-General of the CSO in December 2000.