Richard Riley is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham. He is a world-leading biostatistician specialising in the development and application of methodology for healthcare research, notably for risk prediction and meta-analysis. He has worked at the Universities of Leicester, Liverpool, Keele and Birmingham, where his work focused on systematic reviews and meta-analysis of prognosis studies. He is also a global leader in methods and training for individual participant data meta-analysis.
He also established the PROGnosis RESearch Strategy to improve standards of prognosis research in terms of design, analysis and reporting. Alongside excelling in his specialist areas, he also works to improve healthcare research more broadly, serving as Deputy Chief Statistics Editor for The BMJ.