David Spiegelhalter

Sir

David Spiegelhalter

OBE FRS
Sir; David Spiegelhalter; OBE FRS
	Spiegelhalter giving a presentation in November 2020
Born	David John Spiegelhalter; 16 August 1953; Barnstaple, Devon, England
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA); University College London (MSc, PhD);
Awards	Guy Medal; OBE; FRS (2005); Weldon Memorial Prize (2009); Knight Bachelor (2014);
	Scientific career
Fields	Statistics; Biostatistics;
Institutions	University of Cambridge; University of California, Berkeley; Brunel University; University of Nottingham;
Thesis	Adaptive inference using finite mixture models (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Adrian Smith
Website	www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/person/ds28

Sir David John Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Spiegelhalter is an ISI highly cited researcher.

He is currently Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge. On 27 May 2020 he joined the board of the UK Statistics Authority as a non-executive director for a period of three years, a term which was extended through to 2026.

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