Stephen John Haslett

Stephen Haslett is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Massey University New Zealand, Professorial Fellow at the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) at the University of Wollongong, and Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics (RSFAS) and former Professor / Director of the Statistical Consulting Centre at the Australian National University. He is also a Director of Systemetrics Research Associates Ltd. He has theoretical interests in linear and mixed linear models, sparse contingency tables, sample design and analysis, and small area estimation. He has undertaken extensive small area estimation and survey design projects for the UN World Food Programme for poverty estimation, food security, nutrition and health, often related to emergency situations, and in education for UNICEF. Linked principally with these projects, he has worked in or for central government statistical agencies in more than two dozen countries mainly in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. He is currently involved in research at the Centre for Public Health Research in New Zealand and is a member of the NZ Ministry of Health (MoH) COVID-19 Expert Advisory Network and the Statistical Advisory Group which is providing statistical advice for Covid-19 to MoH. He began his professional career during the late 1970s, designing sample surveys at Statistics New Zealand.