Georgina Sturge is a specialist in statistics and the author of the critically acclaimed Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians, and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers (2022). Her latest book Sum of Us: A History of the UK in Data (2025) is a social history of the UK told through moments when people started to be counted in different ways. From 2018 to 2025, Georgina was a statistical researcher at the House of Commons Library, the in-house research service to the UK Parliament, where she authored material for debates and briefed MPs and their staff. Prior to working at Parliament, she was a quantitative researcher at the Overseas Development Institute. She is now Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford, providing data expertise to its Migration Observatory, and a freelance writer. Georgina has been an expert advisor to the Office for National Statistics since 2018 and chairs its Migration Statistics User Forum. In her role as an author, she has appeared on BBC Radio, including as a guest on the statistics programme More or Less, and in national print publications such as The Times and The Guardian. Her TEDx Talk, ‘What’s so dangerous about bad data?’ (2023) is available to watch online.
