Roger’s main interests are climatic statistics and improving the teaching of statistics at undergraduate and post-graduate level. Roger has an emeritus position at the University of Reading and also works with Stats4SD, a not-for profit consultancy group, where he leads their work with national and international meteorological services. He has previously worked for the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; the Institute of Agricultural Research, Zaria, Nigeria; and the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Niamey, Niger.