  Professor Adrian E. Raftery is the Boeing International Professor of
Statistics and Sociology, and an adjunct professor of Atmospheric Sciences, at
the University of Washington in Seattle. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and
obtained a B.A. in Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Statistics and Operations
Research at Trinity College Dublin. He obtained a doctorate in mathematical
statistics from the Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie under the supervision of
Paul Deheuvels. He was a lecturer in statistics at Trinity College Dublin, and
then an associate and full professor of statistics and sociology at the
University of Washington. He was the founding Director of the Center for
Statistics and Social Sciences.
  Professor Raftery has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed
statistical, sociological and other journals. His research focuses on Bayesian
model selection and Bayesian model averaging, model-based clustering, inference
for deterministic models, and the development of new statistical methods for
demography, sociology, and the environmental and health sciences.
  He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Member of the Royal
Irish Academy, a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, a Fellow
of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, and an elected Member of the Sociological Research
Association. He has won multiple awards for his research. He was Coordinating
and Applications Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association
and Editor of Sociological Methodology. He was identified as the world's most
cited researcher in mathematics for the period 1995-2005.
  Thirty-three students have obtained Ph.D.'s working under Raftery's
supervision, of whom 21 hold or have held tenure-track university faculty
positions.
