Fiona Steele


Fiona Alison Steele, is a British statistician. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics.
After graduating with a degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1992, Steele completed her master's degree and doctorate in statistics at the University of Southampton. She then joined the LSE as a lecturer in statistics and research methodology. She was appointed to a research lectureship at the Institute of Education in 2001. In 2005 moved to the University of Bristol to be a reader in social statistics; she was promoted to professor three years later. Steele was also Director of Bristol's Centre for Multilevel Modelling from 2010 until she took up her post at the LSE in 2013. According to her British Academy profile, her research relates to the "development and application of statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data, including multilevel event history models and simultaneous equation models" and their "applications in demography and education".

Honours

In 2008, Steele was awarded the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medal in Bronze. The following year she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2011 "for services to social science".

Selected works