Biography
Georgina is a data consultant at the Migration Observatory and a Research Affiliate at COMPAS. She is a specialist in UK migration and population 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), tells the story of the UK and its people through moments when we started to count ourselves 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 on migration and justice statistics. Prior to this, she was a quantitative researcher at the Overseas Development Institute, where she worked on livelihoods and wellbeing, social protection, and migration, with a focus on fragile and conflict-affected states. Georgina has been an expert advisor to the Office for National Statistics since 2018 and chairs the 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. In her earlier career, she had academic work published in the Journal of Social Policy and Global Networks. She holds degrees from the University of Oxford (2011) and the University of Maastricht (2013).
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