David Spiegelhalter Keynote Speaker

Renowned Statistician - author of 'The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck '
Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (2007-2018)
Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge

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David Spiegelhalter's Biography

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge. A renowned statistician, author and keynote speaker, he is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.

The Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the University of Cambridge aims to improve the way that statistical evidence is used by health professionals, patients, lawyers and judges, media and policy-makers. He advises organisations and government agencies on risk communication and is a regular media commentator on statistical issues, with a particular focus on communicating uncertainty.

His background is in medical statistics, particularly the use of Bayesian methods in clinical trials, health technology assessment and drug safety. He has over 200 refereed publications and is co-author of several textbooks, as well as The Norm Chronicles (with Michael Blastland), and Sex by Numbers.

In 2024, Penguin published his latest book ‘The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck‘

He works extensively with the media, and presented the BBC4 documentaries “Tails you Win: the Science of Chance” and the award-winning “Climate Change by Numbers”, and in 2011 came 7^th in an episode of Winter Wipeout on BBC1.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005, and knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-2018.