RSS fellow Professor Diane Coyle has been made a dame for services to economics in the King’s Birthday Honours. Professor Coyle is awarded for a long and distinguished career as an economist, including as a member of the National Statistician’s Expert User Advisory Committee, and has been an important contributor and speaker at RSS meetings.
Since 2018, she has been the Bennett professor of public policy at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Bennett Institute. Her current work includes developing new measurements of the economy beyond GDP.
Other notable honours recipients from the world of statistics include:
- Carly Kind, director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, receives an MBE for services to data and artificial intelligence ethics.
- Professor John Newton, director of public health analysis at the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care, receives an OBE for services to public health.
- Professor Caroline Series FRS, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick and formerly president of the London Mathematical Society (2017-19), receives a CBE for services to mathematics.