Helping the Underprivileged with Census & Statistics Data

Head of Quality Analytics, HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education; Honorary Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong

Prof. John Bacon-Shone is an applied Statistician. He is currently the Head of Quality Analytics for HKU Space. He was the Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of Social Sciences Research Centre in The University of Hong Kong, including three years on secondment to the Hong Kong Government assisting with the drafting of the Chief Executive's annual Policy Address, writing speeches and policy documents on health care, migration, population growth, opinion polls, education and technology. He was responsible for knowledge exchange and was the moving force in developing HKU's policy and procedures for research data management, including initiatives on open data and open access. Professor Bacon-Shone's research interests include statistical computing, survey methodology, compositional data, biostatistics, gambling, data archiving, privacy, socio-linguistics and policy research.