David Vere-Jones FRSNZ (17 April 1936 – 31 October 2024) was a New Zealand statistician and probabilist, known in particular for his work on earthquake forecasting.
[4][5] He obtained his doctorate in 1962 at Oxford under the supervision of David George Kendall, with a thesis entitled Topics in the Theory of Probability.
[6] Vere-Jones worked from 1962 to 1964 at the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics of the Ministry of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR).
From 1965 to 1969, he worked in the Department of Statistics, Institute of Advanced Studies, at the Australian National University in Canberra.
He then retired and founded a company, Statistics Research Associates Limited, of which he was a director until 2009.