Sir David Cox is an Honorary Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford; he is currently affiliated with the Department of Statistics at Oxford. He received a Masters of Arts from St. John’s College, Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. After working in industry, he held academic positions at Cambridge and Birkbeck College, London. In 1966 he became Professor of Statistics, and in 1970 Head of the Mathematics Department at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. Sir David is a former Warden (1988–94) of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a Fellow and former Member of Council of the Royal Society and was President of the International Statistical Institute from 1995 to 1997. He holds a number of awards, including honorary Fellowships at St John’s College, Cambridge, and the British Academy, the Guy Medal (in Silver and in Gold) from the Royal Statistical Society, and the degree of D.Sc. from a number of universities. He has also been awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize, University of Oxford, and the Kettering Prize and Gold Medal for Cancer Research. He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He was editor of Biometrika from 1966 to 1991 and has been Chairman of the Trustees since 1994.

Sir David has numerous academic honors including honorary degrees and fellowships and a Knighthood. He is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of ASA. Sir David has been President of the Bernoulli Society, the Royal Statistical Society, and the International Statistical Institute. He has authored or co-authored sixteen books and roughly 250 papers. His work on the proportional hazards regression model is one of the most-cited and most influential papers in modern statistics.