Bernard Silverman
Sir Bernard Walter Silverman, FRS, FAcSS (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and former[3] Anglican clergyman.He is a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University, and has also been attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance.[4] He was briefly president of the Royal Statistical Society in January 2010, a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office.[6] Silverman was educated at the City of London School,[2] an independent day school in Central London, from 1961 to 1969, on a Carpenter Scholarship (similar to today's full bursary),[7] followed by Jesus College at the University of Cambridge.[10] From 1999 to 2005, he was an honorary assistant curate of Cotham Parish Church in the Diocese of Bristol.