Bernard Silverman Scientist

Bernard Walter Silverman FRS (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and Anglican minister. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University, and is also 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. He has been a member of the Council of Oxford University and of the Council of the Royal Society. 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 Advisor to the Home Office.

Personal facts

Birth date	February 22, 1952
Nationality	United Kingdom
Residence	United Kingdom
Education	University of Cambridge
Known for	Density estimation Functional data analysis Nonparametric regression