Helen Louise MacGillivray AM FRSS is an Australian statistician and statistics educator.
MacGillivray entered her studies at the University of Queensland planning to work in physics, but ended up earning a bachelor's degree with honours in mathematics, in the course of which she discovered her love for statistics.
[3] She was a professor of statistics and director of the Maths Access Centre at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), until her retirement.
[5] When she was elected president she became both the second woman and the second Australian to hold the position, after Denise Lievesley and Dennis Trewin.
[1] With Peter Petocz, MacGillivray is the coauthor of the two-volume textbook Statistics and Probability in the Australian Curriculum (Years 7 and 8, and Years 9 and 10), and is the author of Utts & Heckard's Mind on Statistics (Nelson Australia, 2010, adapted from previous work by Jessica Utts and Robert Heckard).