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Conference of Asian Statisticians recommended the establishment of a statistical training and research center

The Government of Japan offered to provide host facilities for Asian Statistical Institute in Tokyo at the 23rd session of the Economic Commission for Asia and Far East (ECAFE) (now ESCAP)

 UNDP and the Government of Japan entered into an Agreement concerning assistance for the Establishment and Operation of Asian Statistical Institute (ASI)    
First Project Manager/Director, Raymond T. Bowman, appointed

Plan of Operation was signed by 20 member countries, UN and UNDP and the Asian Statistical Institute was officially inaugurated on 3 June 1970

The second Five-Year Phase of the Institute and its preservation as a regional institution supported by the United Nations were resolved at the 29th session of ESCAP    
Second Project Manager/Director, K.R. Nair, was appointed

First Five-Year Phase was completed in September Second Five-Year Phase commenced

Third Project Manager/Director, John G. Miller, was appointed

Asian Statistical Institute (ASI) was renamed Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP)

Governing Council of Training and Research Institutions in the ESCAP Region recommended that SIAP should continue as an autonomous institution in Tokyo and the third Five-Year Phase of the Institute resolved at the 35th session of ESCAP

Second Five-Year Phase was completed in September. Third Five-Year Phase commenced

Fourth Five-Year Phase of the Institute was supported at the 40th session of ESCAP

Fourth Project Manager/Director, Tito A. Mijares, was appointed. Third Five-Year Phase was completed in September.   
Fourth Five-Year Phase commenced

Fifth Project Manager/Director, S. Ananda Meegama, was appointed

Fourth Five-Year Phase was completed in September    
Fifth One Year and half Phase commenced

Fifth One Year and half Phase was completed in March    
Sixth Three-Year Phase commenced

Resolution on Status of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific was adopted at the 50th session of Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Sixth Three-Year Phase was completed in March    
SIAP was accorded the legal status of a subsidiary body of ESCAP

First Governing Board meeting was held in March in Tokyo    
Sixth Director, Lau Kak En, was appointed    
Second Governing Board meeting was held in November in Bangkok

SIAP shifted its premises to Makuhari, Chiba-city, Chiba Prefecture in November

Thirtieth Anniversary of the Institute was celebrated with a Ceremony and Seminar on 28 August in Tokyo and followed by Sixth Governing Board Meeting with newly elected members.

Seventh Director, Tomas P. Africa, was appointed on June 2001   
Seventh Governing Board meeting was held in December in Bangkok

The First Session of the Governing Council was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Eighth Director, Davaasuren Chultemjamts, was appointed on May 2006   
The Second of the Governing Council was held in Chiba, Japan

Forty Anniversary of the Institute was celebrated with a Ceremony and Seminar on 31 August in Tokyo.

Ninth Director, Margarita F Guerrero, was appointed on February 2012

Tenth Director, Ashish Kumar , was appointed on December 2016

Fifty Anniversary of UN Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UNSIAP)

Eleventh Director, Shailja Sharma, was appointed on August 2021