David Spiegelhalter
Also known as Sir David Spiegelhalter
British statistician who explains risk and uncertainty; author of The Art of Statistics.
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- Sir David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
- He was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge from 2007 to 2018 and chaired the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication until it closed in 2023.
- He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 2017.
- He wrote The Art of Statistics (2019) and The Art of Uncertainty (2024), and hosts the Risky Talk podcast.
Key facts
- Earlier
- Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge, from 2007 to 2018; MRC Biostatistics Unit from 1981 to 20121
- Roles
- President of the Royal Statistical Society (from January 2017); non-executive director of the UK Statistics Authority from 2020, term extended to 20261
- Books
- The Art of Statistics (2019); The Art of Uncertainty (2024)1
- Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2005); OBE (2006); knighted (2014)1
- Podcast
- Risky Talk (from 2020)1
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