About Andrew Dilnot
Sir Andrew William Dilnot, is a British economist and broadcaster. He was director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002, Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford from 2002 to 2012, and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford from 2012 to 2024. He served as Chair of the UK Statistics Authority from April 2012 until March 2017. In 2018, Dilnot was appointed Chair of the Geospatial Commission, supported by £80 million of new funding, to drive the use of location-linked data more productively. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the British Academy in July 2018. Dilnot became principal of St Hugh's College in 2002, then the only head of house at an Oxford college educated at a comprehensive school.
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