Sir David Roxbee Cox was a British statistician and educator. His wide-ranging contributions to the field of statistics included introducing logistic regression,the proportional hazards model and the Cox process,a point process named after him.
Sir Peter James Donnelly is an Australian-British mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford,and the CEO of Genomics PLC. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made contributions to coalescent theory. His research group at Oxford has an international reputation for the development of statistical methodology to analyze genetic data.
Ian Castles was Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance (1979–86),the Australian Statistician (1986–94),and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University,Canberra.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is an Australian Government agency that collects and analyses statistics on economic,population,environmental,and social issues to advise the Australian Government.
The Australian Statistician is the head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
William D. Rubinstein was an American-British historian and author. His best-known work,Men of Property:The Very Wealthy in Britain Since the Industrial Revolution,charts the rise of the 'super rich',a class he saw as expanding exponentially.
Donald James Weatherburn PSM was Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research in Sydney from 1988 until July 2019. He is a professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Andrew Keith Leigh is an Australian politician,author,lawyer and former professor of economics at the Australian National University. He currently serves as the Assistant Minister for Competition,Charities and Treasury as well as the Assistant Minister for Employment. He briefly served as the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2013 and then served as Shadow Assistant Treasurer from 2013 to 2019. He has been a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives since 2010 representing the seat of Fraser until 2016 and Fenner thereafter. Leigh is not a member of any factions of the Labor Party.
Warner Max Corden AC was an Australian economist. He was mostly known for his work on the theory of trade protection,including the development of the Dutch disease model of international trade. He was also active in the fields of international monetary systems,macroeconomic policies of developing countries and Australian economics. Corden,originally German,emigrated from Nazi Germany to Melbourne in 1939. Corden died on 21 October 2023,at the age of 96.
William Patrick McLennan was an Australian statistician who was Director of the Central Statistical Office (CSO) of the United Kingdom and Australian Statistician,head of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Peter Gavin Hall was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The American Statistical Association described him as one of the most influential and prolific theoretical statisticians in the history of the field. The School of Mathematics and Statistics Building at The University of Melbourne was renamed the Peter Hall building in his honour on 9 December 2016.
Marc Leon Nerlove was an American agricultural economist and econometrician and a distinguished university professor emeritus in agricultural and resource economics at the University of Maryland. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association (AEA) in 1969 and held appointments at eight different universities from 1958–2016. The Clark Medal is awarded to an economist under the age of 40 who “is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge”,and when the AEA appointed him as a distinguished fellow in 2012,they cited his development of widely used econometric methods across a range of subjects,including supply and demand,time series analysis,production functions,panel analysis,and family demography.
David Amiel Freedman was a Professor of Statistics at the University of California,Berkeley. He was a distinguished mathematical statistician whose wide-ranging research included the analysis of martingale inequalities,Markov processes,de Finetti's theorem,consistency of Bayes estimators,sampling,the bootstrap,and procedures for testing and evaluating models. He published extensively on methods for causal inference and the behavior of standard statistical models under non-standard conditions –for example,how regression models behave when fitted to data from randomized experiments. Freedman also wrote widely on the application—and misapplication—of statistics in the social sciences,including epidemiology,public policy,and law.
Nicholas Gruen is a prominent Australian economist and commentator on economic reform,innovation and the CEO of Lateral Economics. He is a visiting professor at King's College London's Policy Institute. He was formerly chair of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation,the Australian Government's Innovation Australia and Kaggle. Former Australian Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner called him "Australia's foremost public intellectual" while Martin Wolf described him as "the most brilliant economist you've never heard of".
Denise Anne Lievesley is a British social statistician. She has formerly been Chief Executive of the English Information Centre for Health and Social Care,Director of Statistics at UNESCO,in which capacity she founded the UNESCO Institute for Statistics,and Director (1991–1997) of what is now the UK Data Archive.
Sir Ian David Diamond FLSW is a British statistician,academic,and administrator,who served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen until 2018. He became the UK's National Statistician in October 2019.
Katherine K. Wallman was an American statistician who served as the Chief Statistician of the United States from 1992 to 2017. In that role at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget,she provided coordination,guidance,and oversight for the Federal Statistical System of the United States.
Guido Wilhelmus Imbens is a Dutch-American economist whose research concerns econometrics and statistics. He holds the Applied Econometrics Professorship in Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business at Stanford University,where he has taught since 2012.
David Wayne Kalisch is an Australian economist and public servant. From 2014 to 2019,he was the Australian Statistician in charge of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
