Dennis John Trewin (born 14 August 1946) is an Australian former public servant, who was the

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, the head of the

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, between July 2000 and January 2007. Trewin joined the ABS in 1966 as a statistics cadet. Between 1992 and 1995 he was the Deputy Government Statistician in

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and a Deputy Australian Statistician from 1995 to 2000, when he was appointed as the Australian Statistician. Trewin was the driving force behind the ABS's pioneering 'Measures of Australia's Progress' (MAP), a new system of integrated national progress measurement, linking economic, social, environmental and governance dimensions of progress, a project which gained wide respect among other national statistical offices and helped bring about the OECD's global project, 'Measuring the Progress of Societies'. He holds other senior appointments in Australia such as non-judicial member of the

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and an adjunct professor at

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. He has held the office of president of the Statistical Society of Australia. Internationally, in 2005 he completed a term as president of the

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having previously been vice-president and president of the

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. He is a past editor of the

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. He is chairman of the global executive board at the

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, chairman of the Asia/Pacific Committee of Statistics, and chairman of the advisory board of Swinburne University of Technology's Swinburne Institute for Social Research. Trewin holds honorary life memberships of the International Statistical Institute and the Statistical Society of Australia. He was listed as one of Australia's Smart 100 in a 2003 poll run by the Australian magazine '' The Bulletin''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trewin, Dennis 1946 births Living people Presidents of the International Statistical Institute Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Australian public servants Australian statisticians Officers of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal