Sir Andrew Dilnot

Andrew Dilnot is Warden of Nuffield College Oxford. He is the non-executive chair of the Oxford University Press Finance Committee. He chaired, with Michael Blastland, the 2022 Review of Impartiality of BBC coverage of taxation and public spending, was Chair of the Geospatial Commission from 2018-2020, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority from 2012 to 2017, and was the Chair of the Commission on the Funding of Care and Support, which reported in 2011. He was Principal of St Hugh’s College, Oxford, from 2002 to 2012 and a Pro Vice Chancellor of Oxford University from 2005 to 2012. He was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002. He was the founding presenter of BBC Radio 4’s series on the beauty of numbers, ‘More or Less’.
Andrew has served on the Social Security Advisory Committee, the National Consumer Council, the Councils of the Royal Economic Society and Queen Mary and Westfield College, as a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, as chair of the Statistics Users Forum of the Royal Statistical Society and as chair of the advisory board for the REAL Centre at the Health Foundation and is currently chair of the Nuffield Medical Trustees. He holds Honorary Doctorates from City University and The Open University, and a City and Guilds Fellowship. He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy and of St John’s and St Hugh’s Colleges in Oxford.