Henry Philip Wynn (born 19 February 1945) is a British statistician who has been a

President of the Royal Statistical Society The president of the Royal Statistical Society is the head of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), elected biennially by the Fellows of the Society. (The time-period between elections has varied in the past, and in fact elections only rarely occur ...

. He gained a

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in mathematics from Oxford and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from

Imperial College, London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

. He was appointed a Lecturer and then Reader at Imperial College before moving to

City University London City, University of London, is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute, and became a university when The City Univ ...

in 1985 as Professor of Mathematical Statistics (and Dean of Mathematics from 1987 to 1995). At City he co-founded the Engineering Design Centre. He moved again, in 1995, to the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands (county), West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded i ...

as founding Director of the Risk Initiative and Statistical Consultancy Unit. He is currently, from 2003, Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics,

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

where he leads the Decision Support and Risk Group. He was a founding president of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) and a Co-Investigator on the Research Councils UK funded project Managing Uncertainty in Complex Models (MUCM). He is author of around 140 published papers and three books/monographs. He holds the

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in Silver from the

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and the

George Box Medal The George Box Medal is an insignia of an award named after the statistician George Box. It is awarded annually by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) in recognition of outstanding work in the development and the ap ...

from the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), is an Honorary Fellow of the

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and a Fellow of the

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. He was the elected

in 1977, the first president to be elected by a contested vote. From 1834 to 1978, RSS Presidents had always been nominated and returned unopposed. In 1978 however there had been a lot of opposition when Council arranged for Sir Campbell Adamson to stand for Council, on the understanding that he would stand for and become president the following year. However, for the first time in living memory there was an election for Council, and Campbell Adamson came last out of a 25 candidates. (There were 25 candidates and 24 place on Council.) Despite this, Campbell Adamson was put up for president, and Wynn was nominated as an alternative candidate. Although Wynn was relatively unknown at the time, he won the election and completed his presidency. He has undertaken a wide range of research in theoretical and applied statistics, focusing principally on model building. Projects with a biological focus include work in dynamic modelling in biology (multi-strain models).

Publications

Monographs since 2000 * "Dynamical Search" (H.P.Wynn, L Pronzato and A Zhigljavsky), Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2000 * "Algebraic Statistics" (H.P.Wynn, E Riccomagno and G Pistone), Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2001. Selected papers * "The Sequential Generation of D-Optimum Experimental Designs" (Henry P. Wynn), The Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1970
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* "Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments" (Jerome Sacks, William J. Welch, Toby J. Mitchell and Henry P. Wynn). Statistical Science (1989)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wynn, Henry Academics of City, University of London Academics of Imperial College London Academics of the London School of Economics Academics of the University of Warwick Alumni of Imperial College London British statisticians Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society Living people 1945 births