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Council

• President: David Hand
• Past president: Bernard Silverman
• Vice president and honorary secretary: Andy Garrett
• Vice presidents: Valerie Isham, Jill Leyland*, Stephen Senn
• Honorary treasurer: Tom Grimes
• Honorary officers: Adrian Bowman, Jenny Church*, Steve Gilmour*, Mary Sweetland, Jonathan Forster, Valerie Isham, Penny Bidgood*

Ordinary members:

Paul Baxter, Penny Bidgood, Bill Browne, Peter Challenor, Jenny Church, Tim Davis, Paddy Farrington, Antony Fielding, Jenny Freeman, John Fox, Steve Gilmour, Anna Hart, Robin Henderson, G Robin Henderson, Sara Hughes, Chris Kershaw, Gillian Lancaster, David Leslie, Trevor Lewis, Jill Leyland, Adele Marshall, Fiona Matthews, John Pullinger, Paul Smith

*Honorary officers who are also elected ordinary members of Council

Executive Committee

• President (as chair): David Hand
• Honorary officers: Penny Bidgood, Adrian Bowman, Jenny Church, Jonathan Forster, Andy Garrett, Steve Gilmour, Tom Grimes, Valerie Isham, Jill Leyland, Stephen Senn, Mary Sweetland
• Two members elected by Council: Paddy Farrington, John Pullinger

Theme directors and managers

• Strategy and constitution: David Hand (director), Martin Dougherty (manager)
• Finance: Tom Grimes (director), Martin Dougherty (manager)
• Staffing: Mary Sweetland (director), Martin Dougherty (manager)
• Membership and recruitment to the Society: Adrian Bowman (director), Nicola Emmerson (manager)
• Honours: Bernard Silverman (director), Paul Gentry (manager)
• Professional affairs: Andy Garrett (director), Gerald Goodall (manager)
• Education, careers and recruitment to the profession: Penny Bidgood (director), Debra Hurcomb (manager)
• External affairs: Stephen Senn (director), Andrew Garratt (manager)
• Statistics user community: Jenny Church (director), Andrew Garratt (manager)
• Meetings and conferences: Valerie Isham (director), Paul Gentry (manager)
• Sections, local groups and study groups: Steve Gilmour (director), Paul Gentry (manager)
• Publications: Jonathan Forster (director), Nicola Emmerson (manager)(RSS NEWS and Significance) and Martin Owen (manager) (the journal)

Professional Affairs Committee

• A vice president appointed by Council (as chair): Andy Garrett
• Council representative: Jenny Freeman
• Eight members elected by the professionally qualified fellowship: Mark Beard, Anna Hart, Tim Knight, Alexa Laurence, Trevor Lewis, James Matcham, Derek Robinson, Ron Smith

President Nominating Committee

• Chair: Tim Holt
• Council nominees: John Pullinger, Paddy Farrington
• PAC representative: Trevor Lewis
• Two section representatives (in rotating order): Vic Barnett (GAS), Wally Gilks (Research Section)
• Two local group representatives (in rotating order): Fazil Baksh (Reading) Cecilia Macintyre (Edinburgh)

Finance Committee

• Honorary treasurer (as chair): Tom Grimes
• President: David Hand
• Honorary officers: Andy Garrett, Adrian Bowman
• Two Council members: Adele Marshall, Fiona Matthews
• Two members appointed by Council: John King, Ian Reynolds

Honours Committee

• President (as chair): David Hand
• Honorary officer: Andy Garrett
• Two senior fellows: Frank Kelly, Tony Fielding
• One government statistician: Paul Smith
• One representative of economics/social science: Angela Dale
• One mathematical statistician: Steffen Lauritzen
• One industrial statistician: Sue Lewis
• One medical statistician: Stuart Pocock
• One representative of statistics applied in physical or life sciences: Byron Morgan
• Immediate past president: Tim Holt

Examinations Board

• Chair: John McColl
• Two assessors: Ian Jolliffe, Wojtek Krzanowski
• Up to four senior examiners: Karen Ayres, Geoff Clarke, Alan Kimber, Lawrence Pettit
• Member of Council: Penny Bidgood

Remuneration and Staffing Committee

• Honorary officer for staffing (chair): Mary Sweetland
• President: David Hand
• Honorary treasurer: Tom Grimes
• One member of Council: Tim Davis
• One Council nominee: David Hall

Investments Sub-Committee

• Honorary treasurer (chair): Tom Grimes
• President: David Hand
• President-elect or immediate past president: Bernard Silverman
• Three fellows appointed by Council: David Elis-Williams, John Crombie, Ian Reynolds

Statistics User Executive Committee

• Chair, Statistics User Forum: Andrew Dilnot
• Honorary officer for statistics user community: Jenny Church
• Three fellows appointed by Council: Simon Briscoe, Mike Haslam, John Pullinger
• Three nominees of the SUF: David Dooks, Kevin Schurer, Ceridwen Roberts

Statistics User Forum

Honorary officer for statistics user community: Jenny Church

Royal Statistical Society
Jenny Church, Simon Briscoe, Mike Haslam, John Pullinger, Anthony Fielding (Social Statistics Section)

 

Affiliated groups
British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association: Cedric Knipe, Alan Lodwick; Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals: Alastair Allan, Claire Creaser; Crime and Justice Network: Alan Brimicombe; Demographics user group: Keith Dugmore; Financial and Economic statistics user group: David Dooks, Duncan McKenzie; Fire and Rescue statistics user group: Aidan McCormack, Jon Gamble; Gender statistics user group: Valerie Evans, Karen Hurrell; Health statistics user group: Inger Hatloy, Deana Leadbeter; International Business statistics users group: Ian Maclean; Labour Market statistics user group: Paul Bivand; Local Authorities Research & Intelligence Association: Andy Davis, Clive Lloyd; Output Area Classification user group: Chris Denham, Martin Robson; Society of Business Economists: Jill Leyland, Ulric Spencer; Sub-national data user group: Rob Lewis; Transport statistics user group: Richard Butchart, Simon Lister; Water statistics user group: Tim Watson; Housing statistics user group: Mick Johnston

Coopted representatives

Peter Sleight (Association of Census Distributors), Nicola Underdown (Association of Regional Observatories), Tiziana Leone (British Society for Population Studies), David Harris, Barry Leventhal (Market Research Society), David Kane (National Council for Voluntary Organisations)

Invited observers

Robert Westwood (Bank of England), Chris Greene (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy), Ian McCafferty (Confederation of British Industry), Peter Elias (Economic and Social Research Council), Richard Cracknell (House of Commons Library), Robert Chote (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Graeme Leach (Institute of Directors), Anne Harrop (Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Tim Allen, Peter Norris (Local Government Assocation), Alex Scharaschkin (National Audit Office), Rebecca Riley, Martin Weale (National Institute of Economic and Social Research), Philippa Brimicombe, Caron Walker (Office for National Statistics), John Sutton (Royal Economic Society), Ceridwen Roberts (Social Research Association) Karen Dennison, Margaret Ward, Melanie Wright (UK Data Archive/Economic and Social Data Service), Ross Young, Richard Laux, Richard Alldritt (UK Statistics Authority)

 

Professional Development Centre Committee

• Chair: Trevor Lewis
• Member of Council: Paul Baxter
• Nominee of the PAC: James Matcham
• Director of RSS (Services) Ltd: Martin Dougherty
• Two members appointed by the chair: Andy Grieve, Fiona Steele
• Co-opted: Wes Miles

Appeals Committee

• Two potential chairs appointed by Council: Shirley Coleman, Sara Hughes
• Panel from which two other potential members are chosen: Paul Altobell, Bob Butcher, Mike Campbell, Marion Gerson, Tony Haws, Alexa Laurence, John Matthews, David Morgan, Ian Pate, Derek Pike, David Wroe

Disciplinary Committee

• Chair appointed by Council: Adrian Smith
• Members appointed by PAC of which three would serve: Paul Altobell, Janet Dougharty, David Morgan, Ian Pate, Derek Pike
• Members appointed by Council: Paul Allin, Tony O’Hagan, David Rhind

Working parties and review teams

National Statistics working party

• Chair: Jill Leyland
• Members: David Hand, Simon Briscoe, Jenny Church, Andrew Dilnot, Keith Dugmore, Hilary Hillier, Tim Holt, Denise Lievesley, Ian Maclean, Greg Phillpotts, John Pullinger, Mary Sweetland, Philip Turnbull

Statistics and the Law working group

• Chair: Colin Aitken
• Members of the statistics, legal and forensic science professions: Janet Arkinstall, Iain Artis, Graham Cooke, Jim Fraser, Peter Gill, Anna Guggenheim, Graham Jackson, Tom Nelson, Roberto Puch-Solis, Mike Redmayne, Paul Roberts, Jim Smith, Karen Squibb-Williams, Peter Stelfox, Mark Stratton

External honours panel

• Chair: Sir John Kingman
• Other members appointed by Council: Mike Titterington, Sir David Cox, Mary Sweetland

Graduate training programme committee

• Chair appointed by Council: Richard Boys
• Three members appointed by Council: Christopher Andrieu, Steve Gilmour, Robin Henderson

RSS representatives on external committees

• Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences Council appointment: To be appointed
• Committee of Professors of Statistics Council appointment: William Browne
• Council for Mathematical Sciences: Valerie Isham (as vice president for academic affairs) John Kent, Alastair Young