Nancy Reid is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto. She received her Bachelor of Mathematics in 1974 from the University of Waterloo, her M.Sc. in 1976 from the University of British Columbia, and her Ph.D. in 1979 from Stanford University. She held an academic appointment at the UBC from 1980-1986 and has held visiting appointments at Imperial College, London, Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin. She has served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the Statistical Society of Canada; and as vice-president of the International Statistical Institute. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a recipient of the Presidents' Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, the first recipient of the Canadian Mathematical Society's Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics' Wald lecturer for 2000. Her research interests include inferential statistics with special emphasis on asymptotic theory for likelihood based inference, design of experiments, and applications of statistics to health and environment.
She was a member of the PIMS SRP from 2005 - 2009.