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David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician and professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is also a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and a member of the Council of the Royal Statistical Society. Spiegelhalter was born in Barnstaple, Devon, England, and educated at the University of Cambridge, where he received a BA in mathematics in 1975 and a PhD in biostatistics in 1979. He has held a number of academic posts, including professor of biostatistics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and professor of medical statistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Spiegelhalter is a leading figure in the field of risk communication and public understanding of science. He has written and presented a number of television programmes, including the BBC's Tails You Win: The Science of Chance and the BBC Four series Risking It All. He has also written a number of books, including Understanding Uncertainty and The Art of Statistics. As of 2021, David Spiegelhalter's net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million.

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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 16 August, 1953
Birthday 16 August
Birthplace Barnstaple, Devon, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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2020

In March 2020 Spiegelhalter launched a podcast called Risky Talk where he interviews experts in risk and evidence communication on topics like genetics, nutrition, climate change and immigration.

2017

He was elected as President of the Royal Statistical Society, and took up the position on 1 January 2017.

2014

Spiegelhalter was knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to statistics.

2012

In 2012, Spiegelhalter hosted the BBC Four documentary Tails You Win: The Science of Chance which described the application of probability in everyday life. He also presented a 2013 Cambridge Science Festival talk, How to Spot a Shabby Statistic at the Babbage Lecture Theatre in Cambridge.

2007

Between 2007 and 2012 he divided his work between the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory (three-fifths) and the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit (two-fifths). He left the MRC in March 2012 and worked full-time at the Statistical Laboratory as the Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk until his retirement. He remains chair of the Winton Centre. As of 2010 Spiegelhalter has supervised at least 3 PhD students.

1981

From 1981 he was at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge. He has been an honorary lecturer at the University of Hong Kong since 1991. He has also been a consultant for GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and the World Anti-Doping Agency. He played a leading role in the public inquiries into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and the murders by Harold Shipman.

1976

Spiegelhalter was research assistant in Brunel University in 1976 and then visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, 1977–78. After his PhD, he was a research assistant for the Royal College of Physicians; he was based at the University of Nottingham, where his PhD supervisor, Adrian Smith, had been appointed a professor.

1953

Sir David John Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Spiegelhalter is an ISI highly cited researcher.

Spiegelhalter was born on 16 August 1953. He attended Barnstaple Grammar School from 1963 to 1970 then studied at the University of Oxford (Bachelor of Arts 1974) and University College London. He gained his Master of Science 1975 and Doctor of Philosophy 1978, supervised by Adrian Smith.

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