for Advanced Spatial Analysis He was the Chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2007-2013. Since 2013, he has been Chair of the Home Office Science Advisory Council and Chair of the Lead Expert Group of the Government Office for Science Foresight project on the Future of Cities. In 2016, he was appointed as Interim CEO of the Alan Turing Institute before becoming director of special projects when Adrian Smith took over. He retired as executive chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute in February 2020, having overseen the organisation's development phase, and was succeeded by Dame Wendy Hall. Publications Entropy in urban and regional modelling. London: Pion, 1970. 166 p. / Russ. ed.: Вильсон А. Дж. Энтропийные методы моделирования сложных систем. – М., Наука, 1978. 248 с. Awards and honours Wilson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2006. He was awarded the Laureat d’Honneur by the International Geographical Union and the 2004 Prize in Regional Science by the European Regional Science Association. Personal life Wilson's wife's name is Sarah. References 1939 births Living people Scientists from Bradford 20th-century British mathematicians 21st-century British mathematicians Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge British social scientists English geographers Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Members of Academia Europaea Academics of the University of Leeds Vice-Chancellors of the University of Leeds Masters of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Presidents of the Institute of Physics Knights Bachelor Academics of University College London Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Urban geographers Regional scientists