Professor Bin Yu has been chosen to be the Campion (President’s Invited) Lecturer at this September’s Royal Statistical Society Conference. Also known as the President’s Invited lecture, this yearly lecture was named after the late Sir Harry Campion, who was the first director of the Central Statistical Office, the forerunner of the Office for National Statistics. Campion was also the inaugural director of the United Nations Statistical Office and the Royal Statistical Society’s President from 1957 to 1959.
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