Pali Lehohla

Pali Lehohla (born 27 September 1957) is a South African analyst and public educator who was the former Statistician-General of South Africa from 2000 and the chair of Africa Symposium for Statistical Development (ASSD). He previously served as chair of the United Nations Statistics Commission, as well as Chair of Statistics Commission Africa.

Early life and education
Lehohla was born on 27 of September 1957. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch, Certificate of Toponymy from University of Pretoria and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Lesotho. In the early 1990s, he worked with United Nations Statistics Commission and  chair for the Sub-Group on Harmonization of Statistics in Africa, as well as the chief advisor to the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MOC) of the 2008 Population and Housing Census of Sudan.