Henry Wynn

Who is Henry Wynn?

Henry Philip Wynn is a British statistician.

He gained a BA in Mathematics from Oxford and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Imperial College, London. He was appointed a Lecturer and then Reader at Imperial College before moving to City University London in 1985 as Professor of Mathematical Statistics. At City he co-founded the Engineering Design Centre.

He moved again, in 1995, to the University of Warwick 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 where he leads the Decision Support and Risk Group.

He was a founding president of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics and a Co-Investigator on the Research Councils UK funded project Managing Uncertainty in Complex Models. He is author of around 140 published papers and three books/monographs.

He holds the Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society and the George Box Medal from the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.