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Professor David Rhind CBR FRS FBA
Professor Rhind serves as a member of the Court of the Bank of England and is also a member of the UK Statistics Board. Recently retired as Vice Chancellor of City University and as Chairman of the Statistics Commission, he has had a long academic career as a geographer and quantitative social scientist. He was Director General and Chief Executive of the Ordnance Survey when it was the first national mapping organisation to complete entire digital map coverage of the country. He has been active in the social sciences, as a member of ESRC and in chairing the Academy of Social Sciences Commission on the Social Sciences that helped promote the issue of quantitative training for social sciences.