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RSS statistical ambassadors

Our statistical ambassador programme provides training and support for statisticians and data professionals to help them improve their skills and confidence in talking about statistics – to the media, schools and the wider public.  

To date we have trained over 30 ambassadors who have given TV and radio interviews, created and participated in public events, published best-selling books and assisted the media on a whole range of data driven stories, from your chances of winning the lottery to vaccine efficacy.  

For further information on the programme or if you have a media or outreach request for our ambassadors, please email our  Head of communications. 

 

  • Our ambassadors
    • Prof Norma Bargary – Professor of Data Science & Statistical Learning, University of Limerick 
    • Dr Eleanor Barry – Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine  
    • David Beckett – Head of Consumer Price Inflation, Office for National Statistics  
    • Michelle Bowen – Statistics Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office  
    • Dr Aoibheann Brady - Lead Geostatistical Scientist, BeZero 
    • Dr Liam Brierley – Research Fellow, University of Glasgow 
    • Professor Catey Bunce – Royal Marsden Clinical Trials Unit & Honorary Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine  
    • Dr Robert Cuffe – Head of Statistics, BBC News 
    • Dr Rhian Davies – Senior Data Scientist, The Strategy Unit, NHS 
    • Dr Michael Dunne-Willows – Principal Statistical Methodologist, Office for National Statistics  
    • Dr David Hodge – Teaching Associate, University of Strathclyde  
    • Nevil Hopley – Senior Data Analyst, Scottish Qualifications Authority  
    • Dr Joy Leahy – Statistician, National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics 
    • Darren Macey – Framework Writer, Cambridge Mathematics  
    • Dr Anthony Masters – Chartered Statistician and Data Analyst, Nationwide  
    • Dr Rob Mastrodomenico – Director of Data Science, Blue Crow Sports Group 
    • Marcus O'Brien - Senior Statistician, Office for National Statistics  
    • Dr Ben Parker – Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Brunel University of London 
    • Dr Brooks Paige – Associate Professor in Machine Learning, University College London 
    • Dr Hugo Pedder – Research Fellow, University of Bristol  
    • Emmanuelle Rodrigues Nunes – Data Scientist, Meta  
    • Harry Snart – Data Scientist, SAS Institute  
    • Dr Lucy Teece – Associate Director of Statistical Science, AstraZeneca 
    • Dr Deirdre Toher – Statistician, Central Statistics Office Ireland  
    • Prof Jennifer Visser-Rogers – Chief Scientific Officer, Coronado Research  
    • Dr Liberty Vittert – Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis  
    • Dr Graham Wheeler – Statistics Director in Statistical Innovation, GSK  
    • Dr Simon White - Senior Investigator Statistician, Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge 
    • Tessa Wilkie – PhD student, Lancaster University