David Hand

Senior Research Investigator & Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Imperial College London

David Hand is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London, where he formerly held the Chair in Statistics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and has served (twice) as President of the Royal Statistical Society. He is a non-executive director of the UK Statistics Authority, a member of the European Statistical Advisory Committee, a member of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, a member of the Advisory Board of the ONS's Data Science Campus, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Institute for the Mathematics of Information.

He previously Chaired the Research Board of Imperial College’s Data Science Institute and was Chair of the UK’s Administrative Data Research Network. He spent eight years as Chief Scientific Advisor to Winton Capital Management. He has published 300 scientific papers and 29 books, including Principles of Data Mining, Information Generation, Measurement Theory and Practice, The Improbability Principle, and The Wellbeing of Nations. In 2002 he was awarded the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society, and in 2012 he and his research group won the Credit Collections and Risk Award for Contributions to the Credit Industry. He was awarded the George Box Medal in 2016. In 2013 he was made OBE for services to research and innovation.