Stian Westlake named new RSS chief executive

摘要

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has appointed Stian Westlake as its new chief executive, succeeding Hetan Shah, who left the society at the end of January to become chief executive of the British Academy. Westlake is a former executive director at Nesta, which describes itself as "an innovation foundation". While at Nesta, from 2009 to 2017, Westlake led a team responsible for launching initiatives including the Alliance for Useful Evidence - set up to champion "smarter use of evidence in social policy and practice" - and the Innovation Index, created in partnership with the Office for National Statistics.