Philip Dawid

Philip Dawid
Philip Dawid at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born
Alexander Philip Dawid

(1946-02-01) 1 February 1946
Blackburn, Lancashire, England
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
EducationCity of London School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, MA, ScD)
AwardsGuy Medal (1978, 2001)
Snedecor Award (1977)
Fellow of the Royal Society (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity College London
City University, London
Cambridge University
Websitewww.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~apd

Alexander Philip Dawid FRS (pronounced 'David'; born 1 February 1946) is Emeritus Professor of Statistics of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. He is a leading proponent of Bayesian statistics.