- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
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
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
