Zoë holds a PhD in modelling the progression of treatment scenarios in the HIV/AIDS epidemic from Cardiff University. She is a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), where she is committee member of the Business and Industrial Section (BIS). She is also a Chartered Mathematician, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), where she is member of both the Professional Affairs Committee (PAC) and Council. Her research interests include areas of modelling, operational research, and medical and forensic statistics. She began her career at Cardiff University, as a Lecturer in Statistics for the School of Mathematics and as a Research Associate and Statistician for the School of Medicine. Prior to this, Zoë worked as a Senior Decision Science Analyst at HBOS plc., building models for credit risk and marketing; http://www.smithinst.co.uk/