Congratulations to RSS fellow Jack Cuzick, who was awarded a knighthood for services to epidemiology in the
2025 New Year Honours List. Prior to his retirement in 2023, he was the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at Queen Mary University of London and served as Director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine from 2013–2021. He has been a fellow of the RSS since 1983, and his knighthood recognises his work demonstrating that anastrozole, a hormone blocker used for many years to treat breast cancer in post-menopausal women,
is also safe and effective at preventing the disease.
Other notable honours recipients from the world of statistics, mathematics and data science are:
Professor Alison Mary Etheridge, OBE FRS Professor of Probability, University of Oxford, and President, Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, received a damehood for services to the mathematical sciences.
Professor Frank Kelly, Battcock, Chair in Community Health and Policy, Imperial College London, received a knighthood for services to air pollution research and to human health.
Professor Peter David Sasieni, Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Co-lead for the Centre for Cancer Screening, Prevention and Early Diagnosis, Queen Mary University of London, received a CBE for services to cancer early detection and prevention.
Mayank Prakash, President of the British Computing Society, received a CBE for services to the advancement of technology professionals.
Dr Peter Anthony Thompson Chief Executive Officer, National Physical Laboratory, received a CBE for services to science and technology.
John Westwell, Director, System Leadership, National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, received an MBE for services to education.
Adam McCamley Senior Analyst, Liverpool City Council, received an MBE for services to social care data.
Professor Susan Christina Welburn, Professor of Medical and Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, received an OBE for services to One Health research and to disease elimination.
Professor Alison Elliott, Head of the Vaccines Research Theme, the Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, awarded an OBE for services to medicine and global health.
Professor Robert Wilkinson, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Wellcome Trust Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Africa, awarded an OBE for services to infectious disease research.
Warmest congratulations to all the recipients from everyone at the Royal Statistical Society.
The RSS regularly proposes nominations for civil honours for statisticians and data scientists – to find out more, read about our
external honours panel.