Peter Ellis – https://www.linkedin.com/pub/peter-ellis/37/297/279

A multi-skilled individual – data scientist, public servant, and overseas aid professional – who combines many years of managerial experience with high level technical skills and the ability to lead substantial, sustained improvement from the front. I’ve led change programmes to improve evaluation of multi-billion dollar aid programmes, devolved management of Australia’s East Timor aid programme, and a transformation of New Zealand’s tourism official statistics. I’m a leader in the use of advanced analytics in New Zealand’s public sector. My team is at the cutting edge of using open source software like R and Git to improve analytic workflow, efficiency and quality control in the spirit of reproducible research and literate programming.

Specialties: Evaluation of government programs, performance information and monitoring, statistical analysis