I earned a BSc in mathematics in 1978, and then PhD in mathematics (Statistics) in 1982, from the University of Nottingham. I worked at Warwick University before joining Duke University in 1988, where I became the Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences (ISDS)from 1990 to 2001.

Now I am an English and American statistician. My works primarily in the field of Bayesian statistics, with research contributions ranging from theory to applied research in areas including finance, commerce, macroeconomics, climatology, engineering, genomics and other areas of biology. My Current core R&D: Bayesian statistics and decision analysis in causal inference, dynamic modelling, forecasting & time series analysis, dynamic networks, model uncertainty, simulation & optimisation. Since 1999, I have been the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistics & Decision Sciences in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University.