Stephen Haslett

Stephen Haslett is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Massey University New Zealand and Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics (RSFAS) at the Australian National University (ANU). He is also a Director of Systemetrics Research Associates Ltd.. He was Professor / Director of the Statistical Consulting Centre at ANU 2015-2018. Until 2025, he was a Professorial Fellow at the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) at the University of Wollongong. He is a Chartered Statistician with and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Life Member of the New Zealand Statistical Association (2014) and a recipient of NZSA's Campbell Award (2010). He has theoretical interests in linear and mixed linear models, sparse contingency tables, sample design and analysis, and small area estimation. Stephen 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. Stephen has been involved in research at the Centre for Public Health Research in New Zealand and was a member of the NZ Ministry of Health (MoH) COVID-19 Expert Advisory Network and the Statistical Advisory Group which provided statistical advice for Covid-19 to MoH. He began his professional career during the late 1970s at the New Zealand Department of Statistics (now Statistics New Zealand), working as a Research Officer designing sample surveys.