A Conversation with Danny Pfeffermann

Danny Pfeffermann served as Israel’s National Statistician and Director General of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics during the years 2013–2022. He has a distinguished career in academia spanning over 5 decades, having received numerous awards for his research contributions. In this interview, Danny talks about his early life, his education, the various jobs and places where he worked and his main research interests and contributions. He concludes with some insightful thoughts about the future effects and implications of data science on the production of official statistics.