Dr Richard Madden

Dr Richard Madden has been Director of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia's health and welfare statistics agency, since 1996. The Institute's mission is Better health and wellbeing for Australians through better health and welfare statistics and information.

Prior to his current appointment, Richard was Deputy Australian Statistician at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. He has held a number of senior positions including Under Treasurer with both the ACT and Northern Territory Governments, Deputy Secretary of the New South Wales Health Department and Head of the Disability Services Division in the Commonwealth Government.

Richard is a statistician and actuary. In 2002 he was Actuary of the year. Richard has a Bachelor of Science from Sydney University and a PhD in statistics from Princeton University.

In the Australia Day honours list of 2003, Richard was awarded the Public Service Medal in recognition of the commitment he has made to improve national health and welfare data collection and standards.