The president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is the highest officer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and, together with the president-elect and past president, sets the directions for IMS during his or her term of office.
Duties According to the IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs (2003), the president makes appointments to IMS committee vacancies, represents the Society to other organizations such as the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) and the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS). In addition, the president is an ex officio member of the corporation of the National Institute for Statistical Sciences (NISS), and is responsible for appointing another member of the corporation and a member of the NISS Board of Trustees.
List of presidents 20th century
1936 Henry L. Rietz 1937 Walter A. Shewhart 1938 Burton H. Camp 1939 Paul R. Rider 1940 Samuel S. Wilks 1941 Harold Hotelling 1942-43 Cecil C. Craig 1944 Walter A. Shewhart 1945 W. Edwards Deming 1946 William Gemmell Cochran 1947 William Feller 1948 Abraham Wald 1949 Jerzy Neyman 1950 Joseph Leo Doob 1951 Paul S. Dwyer 1952 Meyer Abraham Girshick 1953 Morris H. Hansen 1954 Edwin G. Olds 1955 Henry Scheffé 1956 David Blackwell 1957 Alexander M. Mood 1958 Leonard Jimmie Savage 1959 Jacob Wolfowitz 1960 John Tukey 1961 Erich L. Lehmann 1962 Albert H. Bowker 1963 Theodore W. Anderson 1964 Z. W. Birnbaum 1965 Herbert Solomon 1966 Herbert Robbins 1967 Ted Harris 1968 Herman Chernoff 1969 Wassily Hoeffding 1970 Jack Kiefer 1971 William Kruskal 1972 Raj Chandra Bose 1973 Lucien Le Cam 1974 R. R. Bahadur 1975 Frederick Mosteller 1976 Donald L. Burkholder 1977 C. R. Rao 1978 Elizabeth Scott 1979 Samuel Karlin 1980 George E. P. Box 1981 Peter J. Bickel 1982 Mark Kac 1983 Patrick Billingsley 1984 Ingram Olkin 1985 Oscar Kempthorne 1986 Paul Meier 1987 Ronald Pyke 1988 Bradley Efron 1989 Ramanathan Gnanadesikan 1990 Shanti S. Gupta 1991 David O. Siegmund 1992 Willem van Zwet 1993 Larry Brown 1994 Stephen Stigler 1995 David R. Brillinger 1996 James O. Berger 1997 Nancy Reid 1998 Persi Diaconis 1999 Stephen Fienberg
21st century
2000 Morris Eaton 2001 Bernard Silverman 2002 Iain M. Johnstone 2003 S. R. S. Varadhan 2004 Terry Speed 2005 Louis Chen Hsiao Yun 2006 Thomas G. Kurtz 2007 Jim Pitman 2008 Jianqing Fan 2009 Nanny Wermuth 2010 J. Michael Steele 2011 Peter Gavin Hall 2012 Ruth J. Williams 2013 Hans-Rudolf Künsch 2014 Bin Yu 2015 Erwin Bolthausen 2016 Richard Davis 2017 Jon A. Wellner 2018 Alison Etheridge 2019 Xiao-Li Meng 2020 Susan Murphy 2021 Regina Liu 2022 Krzysztof Burdzy 2023 Peter Bühlmann 2024 Michael Kosorok
External links Past Executive Committee Members
References IMS Handbook for Officers, Editors, Council Members and Committee Chairs