Stephen Geoffrey HALL

Biography

Stephen HALL is a statistician in the UK Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He has responsibility for coordinating work on indicators of sustainable development to support and monitor progress in the UK Government's sustainable development strategy. He has been in this post for seven years, and within the British Civil Service for 17 years. He has previously worked in statistical divisions in other government departments, working on population, town centre, land use, environmental and local government statistics.

Within his current role, Stephen is responsible for a number of indicator publications, and he has developed new formats for these which have been internationally recognised and emulated. He has also been developing the first set of official measures of life satisfaction and wellbeing. Stephen represents the UK in international meetings on indicators organised by Eurostat, UNECE, OECD and UN.

Stephen is the chairman of a leading amateur chamber choir in London. He has also been participating in and most often leading volunteer groups for the National Trust, a large conservation organisation, for 17 years, working on week-long projects to protect the British countryside and to enhance public access.

Stephen has a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, UK

This biography was last updated on January 3, 2008