Audrey Brown

Chief Statistician at the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

Audrey Brown has been the Chief Statistician at the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) since 1996 with overall responsibility for providing analysis of data about schools. She was a council member of the Royal Statistical Society from 2004 to 2008. Audrey was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2007.

During her career, Audrey has been a statistician at the Further Education of Funding Council and before that at the Department for Education (a previous incarnation of DCSF) where she was responsible for publishing statistics on further and higher education, and education finance. Between 1976 and 1987 Audrey was based at the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) managing the Longitudinal Study and working on household composition, fertility and the census. During this time she also had a spell at Eurostat.