Andreas Georgiou is the man who cleaned up Greece’s discredited economic data and produced the first statistics in years that anyone could rely on.

That’s if you ask statistical bodies across Europe and around the world.

To the Greek authorities, he’s a criminal who violated his duty to the country.

I had the privilege of interviewing him at length for an article in Significance, the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association. The article is freely available online here.