Hetan Shah

Hetan Shah
Shah at a Datum Future panel in London in 2018
Alma mater	University of Oxford Birkbeck, University of London Nottingham Law School
Employer(s)	British Academy Royal Statistical Society King's College London

Hetan Shah is the chief executive of the British Academy and the chair of Our World in Data. In 2024 he was appointed by the UK Parliament to the Board of the National Audit Office, the UK's spending watchdog.^[1] He is a visiting professor at King's College London and a Fellow of Birkbeck, University of London. He served as executive director of the Royal Statistical Society from 2011 to 2019.