Professor David Hand FBA

Quantitative Economics; Health Studies; Social Statistics

Elected 2003

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2003
Subjects: Sociology
Website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.j.hand

David Hand is Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. He previously worked at London University and the Open University. He is a Chartered Statistician and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He serves on the Board of the UK Statistics Authority and the European Statistical Advisory Committee. He is a former president of the Royal Statistical Society, former Chair of the Board of the Administrative Data Research Network, and served as a member of the ONS Methodology Review Group and the Royal Society / British Academy Data Governance Working Group. He has received many awards for his research, including the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society and the Box Medal from the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics. He was made OBE for research and innovation in 2013. His 29 books include Principles of Data Mining, Measurement Theory and Practice, The Improbability Principle, and The Wellbeing of Nations.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College, London; Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College, London

Past appointments

Imperial College of Science and Technology University of London Emeritus Professor of Mathematics

Oct 2011 -

Imperial College of Science and Technology University of London Professor of Statistics

Jan 1999 -

Imperial College of Science and Technology University of London Professor of Statistics, Imperial College, University of London

Jan 1999 -

The Open University Professor of Statistics

Jan 1988 - Jan 1999

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience University of London Statistician

Jan 1977 - Jan 1988

Publications

Statistical challenges of administrative and transaction data (with discussion)

D.J. Hand - Published in 2018

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

Aspects of data ethics in a changing world: where are we now?

D.J. Hand - Published in 2018

Big Data

New statistics for old? – Measuring the wellbeing of the UK (with discussion)

P. Allin and D.J. Hand - Published in 2016

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

The Wellbeing of Nations: Meaning, Motive, and Measurement

P. Allin and D.J. Hand - Published in 2014 by Wiley

The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day

D.J. Hand - Published in 2014 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Measurement Theory and Practice: the World Through Quantification

D.J. Hand - Published in 2004 by Edward Arnold; Wiley