Steve MacFeely is the Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics and Data Directorate at the OECD in Paris, France, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics at University College Cork in Ireland. He chairs the advisory boards of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS, the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP), and the UN Productive Capacity Index Statistical and Technical Advisory Group.

Before joining the OECD, Steve was the Director of Data and Analytics at the World Health Organization (2021-2024); Director of Statistics and Information at UN Trade and Development (2014 – 2021); and Deputy Director-General at the National Statistics Office in Ireland (2007 – 2014). He co-chaired the Committee of the Chief Statisticians of the UN System (CCS-UN), the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) and between 2020 – 2014 co-chaired the HLCP Task Force on International Data Governance.