James Nicholson is an experienced teacher of Mathematics at secondary level; he has taught for 12 years at Harrow School and spent 13 years as Head of Mathematics in a large Belfast grammar schooL He is the author of two A-level statistics texts, and editor of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics. He has also contributed to a number of other sets of curriculum and assessment materials, is an experienced examiner and has acted as a consultant for UK government agencies on accreditation of new specifications. James ran school workshops for the Royal Statistical Society for many years, and has been a member of the Schools and Further Education Committee of the Institute of Mathematics and its Application since 2000, including six years as chair; and is currently a member of the Outer Circle group for the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education. He has served as a Vice-President of the International Association for Statistics Education for four years, and is currently Chair of the Advisory Board to the International Statistical Literacy Project.