Sir Bernard Silverman is an eminent British Statistician whose career has spanned academia, central government, and public office. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society in 2010 before stepping down to become Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office until 2017. Since 2018, Sir Bernard has been a part-time Professor of Modern Slavery Statistics at the University of Nottingham and also has a portfolio of roles in Government, as chair of the Geospatial Commission, the Technology Advisory Panel to the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, and the Methodological Assurance Panel for the Census. He was awarded a knighthood in 2018 for public service and services to science.
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Sir Bernard Silverman is an eminent British Statistician whose career has spanned academia, central government, and public office. He will discuss his wide-ranging career in statistics with Professor Denise Lievesley, herself a distinguished British social statistician.
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