Service Awards

The ISI Service Awards are presented to members who have made outstanding contributions to the ISI and the international statistical community. They are selected every two years by the ISI Executive Committee and are recognised at the Awards Ceremony during the World Statistical Congress, and receive a certificate.

Past ISI Service Awards Recipients (2015 – 2025)

ISI Service Awards - 2025 Recipients

Dr. Marianthi Markatou

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Statistical Review (1 March 2022 – 31 December 2025)

Prof. Scott Holan

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Statistical Review (1 September 2019 to 31 December 2023)

Ola Awad

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as ISI Membership Elections Committee Chair

Jogesh Babu

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as ISI Astrostatistics Special Interest Group Chair

Paulo Canas Rodrigues

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as ISI Special Interest Group on Data Science Chair

Jose Rosero Moncayo

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as ISI Committee on Agricultural Statistics Chair

Mara Sherlin Talento

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as ISI Young Statisticians Committee Chair

Adrian Röllin

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as SPC Chair for ISI 2025, 65th World Statistics Congress

Oliver Chinganya

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service to ISI and the statistical community in Statistical Capacity Building developments and innovations

Ksenija Dumicic

For her leadership and commitment to the ISI and the statistical community as well as her instrumental role in promoting activities and maintaining the activities of the Committee on Women on Statistics

Jūratė Petrauskienė

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as SPC Co-Chair for ISI - IAOS 2024 Conference in Mexico

Manuel Mendoza

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as SPC Co-Chair for ISI - IAOS 2024 Conference in Mexico

ISI Service Awards – 2023 Recipients

Elena Zarova

For her leadership as Chair of the ISI Central Eurasia Outreach Committee from 2013 – 2022

Mark Podolskij

For his outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as Scientific Programme Committee Chair for the 2023 ISI World Statistics Congress

Reija Helenius

For her leadership as Director of ISI/IASE's International Statistical Literacy Project.

A. John Bailer

For his invaluable efforts in organising the Virtual World Statistics Congress 2021.

Cathy Chen

For serving as Chair of the ISI East Asian Outreach Committee from 2016 - 2021.

ISI Service Awards – 2021 Recipients

Nalini Ravishanker

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as SPC Chair for the Virtual ISI World Statistics Congress 2021.

Ananda Sen

For serving as Editor-in-Chief of ISI’s flagship journal International Statistical Review.

Michael Steiner

For serving as Committee on Agricultural Statistics Chair.

Peter Guttorp

For his invaluable efforts in organising the Public Voice Initiative.

Megan Higgs

For her Editorial Leadership for the Statisticians React to the News blog.

ISI Service Awards – 2019 Recipients

Yves-Laurent Grize

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as SPC Chair for the ISI World Statistics Congress 2019 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ray Chambers

For serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of ISI’s flagship journal International Statistical Review from April 2015 – August 2018.

Marc Genton

For serving as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Stat from January 2015 - December 2017.

Pedro Silva

For his invaluable efforts in organising the ISI World Statistics Congress 2015 in Rio de Janeiro.

ISI Service Awards – 2017 Recipients

Fabrizio Ruggeri

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as SPC Chair for 61st WSC Marrakech, Morocco 2017.

Belkacem Abdous

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service as LPC Chair for 61st WSC Marrakech, Morocco 2017.

Hasnae Fdhil

For outstanding and dedicated service to 61st WSC Marrakech, Morocco 2017.

Irena Krizman

For outstanding and dedicated leadership and service to ISI and the international statistical community in Statistical Capacity Building developments and innovations.

ISI Service Awards – 2015 Recipients

Frank Samaniego

For serving as Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee at the 60th World Statistics Congress.

Nancy Garcia

For serving as Chair of the Local Programme Committee for the 60th ISI WSC.

Marc Hallin

For his role as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Statistical Review.

Nicholas Fisher

For his role as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Stat.

Toh Hock Chai

For ISI’s regional initiatives in South East Asia and for the inaugural ISI Regional Statistics Conference in 2014.

Shyamala Nagaraj