I mangled the link to the BBC website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8070000/8070108.stm
but Tobias Ryden has kindly provided some background information on Professor Rosling
According to the Swedish Wikipedia page
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
he is a physician, with a PhD in internal medicine, and professor of international health. In fact I now see that the English Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
says that he studied statistics in the 60's, but still I think it is not correct to call him a statistician. A physician with unusually good knowledge of statistics is probably a fair description.
Best wishes,
Tobias Rydén
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