David J. Hand

Paul Allin is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, UK, researching the use of wellbeing measures. He was previously a Statistician, Researcher and Policy Analyst in various UK government departments and agencies, including directing the Measuring National Wellbeing programme at the Office for National Statistics. He is the author, with David Hand, of The Wellbeing of Nations (2014). 

David Hand is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and a Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London, UK, where he previously chaired the Statistics Section. He has served as President of the Royal Statistical Society and is on the Board of the UK Statistics Authority. He is the author of over 300 scientific papers and 30 books, including Measurement Theory and Practice (2010), The Improbability Principle (2015) and Dark Data (2020).