Sir John Alexander David Aston is a British statistician, Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) at the Home Office (2018-2020), and Professor of Statistics, Statistical Laboratory,

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...

. From 2021 he is the Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life. And from July 2021 he has also served as a non-executive director on the board of the

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. Aston earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in statistics from

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and

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in Montreal, Quebec. Aston was an academic at the

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and at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, before becoming a professor at the University of Cambridge. Aston was one of the 23 attendees of the

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(Sage) during the early stage of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic owing to his CSA role at the time. Aston is married to Karri, and they have three children. He was knighted in the

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for services to statistics and public policymaking.

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