Laurent Billot is Director of the Biostatistics and Data Science Division at the George Institute for Global Health and Professor within the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW Sydney. He has over 20 years of experience in clinical research and is recognised for his leading role in the design and analysis of large-scale randomised clinical trials in critical care, cardiovascular, neurological and musculoskeletal diseases. His research focuses on biostatistics and its application to the design and analysis of clinical trials.