Irini Moustaki is a Professor of Social Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Computer Science from the Athens University of Economics and Business and her MSc and PhD in Statistics from the LSE. Her research interests are in latent variable models and structural equation models. Her methodological work includes treating missing data, longitudinal data, detection of outliers, goodness-of-fit tests, and advanced estimation methods. Furthermore, she has made methodological and applied contributions to comparative cross-national studies and epidemiological studies on rare diseases.

She has co-authored two books on latent variable models and published extensively in journals such as JRSS A and C, Psychometrika, JASA, and Biostatistics. She received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala University in 2014. She was an Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychological Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong from July 2015 to July 2018. She was the Executive Editor of the journal Psychometrika from November 2014 to December 2018 and the President of the Psychometric Society from July 2021 to July 2022. She was elected in 2016 as a Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology member. She is a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the PIAAC Project I and II (Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) of the OECD and a member of the Technical Executive Group for the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) since January 2020. She has given keynote talks at conferences in the US and Europe.