Ms Anne Vaughan - Chairperson of the National Statistics Board

Anne Vaughan is chairperson of the National Statistics Board since 2019. She was a member of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare and the Commission on Pensions. She retired from the Department of Social Protection in 2018 where she was Deputy Secretary for almost eight years and had responsibility for policy development and service delivery in relation to working age payments. During her civil service career of 38 years, she also worked in the Department of Finance and in the Department of the Taoiseach. Anne is a non-executive director of a number of charitable bodies. She is a member of the: Audit Committee of the C&AG; Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland board and the ESRI Council. Anne is a graduate of UCD, TCD and the UCD Smurfit Business School. She holds a M.Sc. in Public Sector Analysis.