IER’s Professor Peter Elias, CBE, FAcSS, has been elected as a Fellow of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) which brings together an extensive network of statisticians from over 100 countries.

Trained as a labour economist, Peter served as a Strategic Advisor for Data Resources to the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) between 2004 and 2016, assisting with the development of the UK research data infrastructure. With Professor Kate Purcell, Peter has also been co-leading Futuretrack, a longitudinal study which followed up students up to around fifteen years after graduation.