John Aston (statistician)


John A. D. Aston is a British statistician, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Home Office, and
Professor of Statistics, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Aston earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in statistics from Imperial College London and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
Aston was an academic at the University of Warwick and at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, before becoming a professor at the University of Cambridge.
Aston is one of the 23 attendees of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
Aston is married to Karri, and they have three children.