Fiona Alison Steele, CBE, FBA is a British statistician. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
After graduating with a degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1992, Steele completed her master's degree (in 1993) and doctorate in statistics (in 1996) at the University of Southampton. She then joined the LSE as a lecturer in statistics and research methodology. She was appointed to a research lectureship at the Institute of Education in 2001. In 2005 moved to the University of Bristol to be a reader in social statistics; she was promoted to professor three years later. Steele was also Director of Bristol's Centre for Multilevel Modelling from 2010 until she took up her post at the LSE in 2013.[1][2][3] According to her British Academy profile, her research relates to the "development and application of statistical methods for the analysis of longitudinal data, including multilevel event history models and simultaneous equation models" and their "applications in demography and education".[3]