11 Facts About Hetan Shah

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Hetan Shah is the chief executive of the British Academy, a visiting professor at King's College London and deputy chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute.

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Hetan Shah served as executive director of the Royal Statistical Society from 2011 to 2019.

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Hetan Shah earned a postgraduate diploma at Nottingham Law School and a master's degree in history and politics at Birkbeck, University of London.

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Hetan Shah earned a further postgraduate certificate in economics at Birkbeck, University of London in 2003.

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Hetan Shah served as executive director of the Royal Statistical Society from 2011 to 2019.

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Hetan Shah called for more care to be taken when companies disclose their gender pay gap; claiming that some could be "gaming the system" by incorrectly reporting their mandatory declarations.

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Hetan Shah has called for the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee to stop having evidence sessions that consistently feature all male panels.

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In 2019 it was announced that Hetan Shah would join the British Academy as Chief Executive in 2020.

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Hetan Shah is Vice Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute and Chair of the Friends Provident Foundation.

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Hetan Shah is a Visiting Professor at King's College London and was a member of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice.

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Hetan Shah was a member of the independent Social Metrics Commission chaired by Baroness Phillipa Stroud which recommended a new way of measuring poverty in the UK.

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