Andrew Sporle is an  international award-winning data and research innovator with over 30 years’  experience in research practice, policy and ethics. His current work is  mainly focused on data strategy, social/health inequity, statistical literacy  or making statistical information resources more useful to decision-makers  beyond government. This work is carried out through iNZight Analytics Ltd, a  Māori-owned data analytics and visualisation company. He is the National  Contact Point (Māori) for the EU's Horizon Europe Research Fund, an Honorary  Associate-Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland and a deputy  director of Healthier Lives National Science Challenge. He is a board member  for several Māori or indigenous research committees, advisor on government  data and research initiatives in Aotearoa and Australia, co-lead on for  iNZight statistical software and on the executive of the Virtual Health  Information Network, Te Mana Raraunga and the International Sociological  Association Research Committee on Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and  Ethnicity. He serves StatsNZ's Data Ethics Advisory Group and Te Whatu Ora’s  National AI & Algorithm Expert Advisory Group. Andrew was the inaugural  Māori Health Research Manager at the Health Research Council and initiated  both the Māori research responsiveness and workforce development initiatives  that are still running 3 decades later.