Professor Chenlei Leng has been appointed as chair of the Research Section Committee (RSC) of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), with effect from 1 January, 2016. He is the second member of Warwick academic staff to chair the RSC; Professor David Firth chaired the committee on two occasions previously, between 2001-2003 and in 2009.  

The RSC is responsible for promoting the theory of statistics and the development and applications of statistical methods, and in particular handles papers submitted to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B as discussion papers.