A conversation with Ron Kenett

Ron Kenett is an applied statistician with a career in industry, in academia and in consulting. This perspective provides a unique point of view on the role and future of statistics in industry, healthcare, services and academia. He earned a B.Sc. in mathematics, with first class honors, at Imperial College in London, and took his Ph.D. under Prof. Samuel Karlin at Stanford and the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He is a recipient of the Greenfield Medal of the Royal Statistical Society in the UK, Box Medal of the European Network of Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) and life achievement award by the Israel Society for Quality. Ron is past President of ENBIS and of the Israel Statistical Association and author and coauthor of 18 books and over 250 papers. This discussion provides a glance at Ron’s career and his views on statistics.