Dennis Mapa

Claire Dennis S. Mapa (born November 6, 1969) is a Filipino economist and statistician. He is the National Statistician and Civil Registrar General (NSCRG) of the Philippine Statistics Authority with a rank of Undersecretary as appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte. He succeeds Lisa Grace Bersales whose tenure ended on 22 April 2019. He served as dean and professor at the School of Statistics at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City and as the vice president and executive director of the UP Statistical Center Research Foundation. Born on November 6, 1969, in Bacolod, Negros Occidental,, Mapa obtained his bachelor's degree in statistics at the University of the Philippines School of Statistics in 1990. After teaching for two years in the University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos, he went back to the UP School of Statistics to be an instructor and enrolled in Master of Science in statistics. mid-way through his graduate studies, he pursued his long-time interest in economics at the UP School of Economics (UPSE). He earned his degrees in MA Economics and MS Statistics in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He was then awarded a fellowship at the UP School of Economics, where he pursued his Ph.D. in economics in 2008. Mapa is the past president of the Philippine Statistical Association, Inc. (PSAI) Board of Directors, and a member of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) Advisory Council. In addition, he served as the Dean of the UP School of Statistics from September 2014 to 2017, and was re-appointed by Former UP President Alfredo Pascual in which Mapa served his second term as Dean from 2017 to 2020. However, his second term was cut short in May 2019 when he was appointed as Undersecretary of the PSA. He continuously serves as a resource person in capacity building undertakings in the area of econometric methods.