I am a statistician who has been involved with the activities of the New Zealand Statistical Association (NZSA) for many years. Currently I am the elected NZSA President (2025-2026) and in the past I have served as the elected Secretary (2014-2017) and Membership Secretary (2024). In 2001 I founded the Wellington Statistics Group, a local body of the NZSA, and I have been a member of the NZSA Executive Committee since 2004. 

I have been the Organising Committee Chair for 13 conferences, including the NZSA Annual Conference in 2004, 2009, 2014, 2024, and several of the seven Wellington Workshops in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, which ran over the period 2009-2019. For 11 conferences, I was the proceedings/website editor, including the 2023 Australasian Actuarial Education and Research Symposium and the 2024 International Conference on Machine Intelligence for GeoAnalytics and Remote Sensing (MIGARS).

My research interests are broad and include time series analysis, distribution-free goodness of fit testing and statistical modelling in ecological applications. I am a joint author, along with Granville Tunnicliffe Wilson and Marco Reale, of a 2015 Chapman & Hall/CRC research monograph, Models for Dependent Time Series. I have been funded, along with collaborators in the School of Biological Sciences, on two Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden projects and I have a large number of applied publications, with many collaborators.