Insights and Statistics Group

Jacqui Vitas is the acting Deputy Australian Statistician leading the Insights and Statistics Group. The Insights and Statistics Group has responsibility for coordinating the end-to-end delivery of data services for our clients. This includes producing demographic, economic and social statistics, and the Census.

Sybille McKeown is the acting General Manager for the People and Place Division.

• Suraksha Maharaj*, Health, Disability and Vital Statistics Branch
• Sean Crick, Labour Statistics Branch
• Sybille McKeown, Community, Wellbeing and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistics Branch
• Sarah Hinde, Education and Crime Statistics Branch

Jacqui Vitas, General Manager of the Economy and Environment Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics

Jacqui Vitas is the General Manager of The Economy and Environment Division.  
Jacqui began her official statistics career in 1997, initially at the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), and since 2016, at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Her first role involved work on the 2001 population census, after which she spent nearly a decade in the ONS Methodology Directorate. 
 
Since 2010, Jacqui has held senior positions in economic statistics, covering areas such as National Accounts, Balance of Payments, Financial Accounts, Public Finance, Labour Statistics and Business Surveys.  Since 2023, she has also overseen the ABS’s environmental-economic accounting programme. 
 
Jacqui has contributed to a number of international projects and books. She co-authored (as Jacqui Jones) ‘Designing and Conducting Business Surveys’; co-edited ‘Advances in Business Statistics Methods and Data Collection; and co-edited the ‘Handbook for Monitoring and Evaluating Business Surveys Response Burdens’. She is the Executive Sponsor for the ABS and Statistics Indonesia (BPS) partnership; a member of the United Nations Network of Economic Statisticians; and in 2025 was elected as co-chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Environmental-Economic Accounts (UNCEEA).
 
Jacqui has a BA (Hons) in Social Policy Administration and an MSc in Social Research.

• Mish Tan, Government, Wealth, Housing and Data Inputs Branch
• Luisa Ryan*, International, Thematic and Environmental Statistics Branch
• Grace Kim, National Accounts Branch
• Katherine Keenan, Advancing Economic Statistics - Accounts Futures Branch
• Kylia Wall*, Advancing Economic Statistics - Future Design Branch

Andrew Tomadini is the acting General Manager of the Prices and Transformation Division. In this role, he is responsible for the production of all prices statistics and for leading the ABS’ key transformation program – Big Data, Timely Insights (BDTI).  BDTI is a significant investment in and transformation of the ABS’ data and digital capability and will allow the ABS to produce statistics and new insights using modern data and analytic tools in a scaled cloud environment.

• Ben Dorber*, Business Statistics Transformation Branch
• Jason Atkinson*, Prices Transformation Branch
• Michelle Marquardt, Prices Branch
• Amanda Clark, Program Governance & Data Management Branch

Mark Harding is the Acting General Manager of the Census and Population Statistics Division. In this role, she oversees the design, planning, and execution of the 2026 Census, and the production of high-quality population statistics for Australia.

• Tanya Hornick*, Census Field Operations Branch
• Jenny Dobak*, Population Statistics Branch
• Annette Kelly, Census Data Operations Branch

*Individual is acting, temporary or contractor in this role