Adrian E. Raftery (born 1955 in Dublin, Ireland)[1] is an Irish and American statistician and sociologist.

He is the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology,[2] and founding Director of the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States.

[3] Raftery studied mathematics and statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in 1976 and obtained his doctorate in mathematical statistics in 1980 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France, advised by Paul Deheuvels.

[4][5] From 1980 to 1986, he was a lecturer in statistics at Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected to fellowship in the year he left.

His research has focused on the development of new statistical methods, particularly for the social, environmental and health sciences.