Head of the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), linked to the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). Responsible for research projects to produce ICT-related data for the monitoring of national policies and international goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Coordinates capacity building programs in survey methodologies in Latin America and Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa. Member of Consultive Committee of the Brazilian Census (Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics) and member of the Board of Councelors of the Brazilian Center for Innovation in Education (CIEB). Chair of the Expert Group on ICT Households indicators (EGH) from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) from 2012 to 2017, expert at the OECD working party on Measurement and Analysis of the Digital Economy and working party on Artificial Intelligence Governance.
Holds a PhD degree in Business Administration from Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), a Master Degree in Business Administration from Bradford University (UK), a MSc Degree in Computer Science from Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and a BSc Degree in Electrical Engineering from Catholic University (Brazil) and conducted postdoctoral research at HEC Montreal (Canada).

Andrea Diniz da Silva is a professor and researcher at the National School of Statistical Sciences of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics – ENCE/IBGE. She leads the UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil, serving Latin America and the Caribbean. She has a degree in statistics and a PhD in Public Statistics.

Andrea de Panizza (PhD) is an applied economist, and is currently employed as a research manager at the Italian National Office of Statistics (Istat), where he leads the area of “integrated statistical products on social and economic analysis”. He formerly served as senior economist and Head of the Information Society unit at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, as senior researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, and as a researcher at Italy’s National Research Council. Andrea is the Italian national delegate and vice chair of the OECD Working Party on Measurement and Analysis of the Digital Economy, and authored more than 80 papers and chapters in books.

André Portela is a Full Professor of Public Policy at the São Paulo School of Economics of the Getulio Vargas Foundation. He coordinates the Center for Applied Microeconomics (C-Micro) and serves as the director of the FGV EESP CLEAR Regional Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results for Brazil and Lusophone Africa, both within the same institution.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Federal University of Bahia (1989), a master's degree in Economics from the University of São Paulo (1995), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University (2001). His academic career includes positions as an assistant professor at the University of São Paulo, adjunct associate professor at Vanderbilt University, and visiting professor at Cornell University. More recently, he was a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge, where he developed a research project on the social and economic impacts of the Mariana dam collapse (Rio Doce).
André Portela has also contributed as an editor of the journal Estudos Econômicos and served as the executive secretary of the Brazilian Econometric Society. His experience in Economics encompasses labor market, social security, inequality, poverty, education, child labor, and public policy evaluation.

César Marques is a sociologist with a PhD in Demography from UNICAMP and a postdoctoral fellowship in Demography from the University of Vienna. He is a professor and researcher at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE/IBGE), where he served as the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Population, Territory, and Public Statistics from 2016 to 2020. He is currently the Deputy General Coordinator at ENCE. At the Brazilian Association of Population Studies (ABEP), he was the coordinator of the Working Group on Population, Space, and Environment and a board member from 2019 to 2022. He was a member of the Population-Environment Research Network Scientific Committee from 2019 to 2023. He holds a Research Productivity Fellowship from CNPq and his main fields of research are the interactions among population and environment, with a focus on climate change, vulnerability, and adaptation.

She holds an M.A. degree and a Ph.D. in Statistics (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). She currently works in the Coordination of Methods and Quality of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Her main interest areas are editing, imputation, hierarchical models and small area estimation.

Demi Getschko holds BSc, MSc, and PhD, degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He is an advisor to the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), CEO of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) and an Associate Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) by the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO).
In April 2014 he was an inductee at the Internet Hall of Fame under the category "Global Connectors", in a ceremony held in Hong Kong. In July of the same year, he was awarded with the “Cristina Tavares" prize of the Brazilian Computer Society. In December, on the day of the Engineer, he received from the Engineers' Union, in the State of São Paulo, the "Personality of Technology 2014" award, under the category "Internet." In May 2016 he was admitted to the Order of Merit of Communications, at the "Officer's Degree" as a form of recognition of his services to Communications.

Retired and voluntary Principal Researcher of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and Senior Associate Researcher at the Society for the Development of Scientific Research (SCIENCE). She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Southampton and has been working as a survey methodologist for more than 35 years as well as a lecture at graduate and undergraduate levels. Denise was president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) in 2019-2021, is currently ISI vice president and an editor of the Statistical Journal of the IAOS. Her main areas of interest are survey methods, official statistics, and statistical education.

Deniz Susar is a Governance and Public Administration Officer, Digital Government Branch, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government is a Governance and Public Administration Officer at the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government of UNDESA. Deniz’s main work areas include digital government and preparation of the biannual UNDESA flagship publication ‘United Nations E-Government Survey'. As part of his current role, he also supports the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). HIs main research areas include e-government, open government, citizen engagement, internet governance, artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies and open government data. Deniz holds a Master Degree on International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University, New York, United States and a Computer Engineering degree from the Bosphorus University of Istanbul, Turkiye.

Emma Dickinson is a Principal Social Researcher and is the co-lead of the ONS Social Survey Transformation (SST) Research and Design Team. Emma is an experienced qualitative researcher and a subject matter expert in the collection of socio-demographic information.
Prior to working in SST, Emma worked as deputy Data Collection lead in DQHub. She also previously led the transformation of the socio-demographic questions on ONS’ social surveys. There she demonstrated the importance of using respondent centred design to ensure minimal respondent burden and maximum data accuracy during the response process. Before her transformation role, Emma worked in ONS’ Data Collection Methodology Unit and led qualitative research projects to develop official government surveys.

Emma is passionate about qualitative research methods and the amalgamation of both traditional and innovative techniques to thoroughly explore a research question.

Ms Esperanza Magpantay is the Senior Statistician of the ICT Data and Analytics division of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), where she has been working since December 2000. She is responsible for the collection, harmonization, and dissemination of ICT statistics. She’s the ITU representative to international initiatives and working groups, such as the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development and its Steering Committee, the UN Inter-agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators, and the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN-CEBD). She currently leads the UN-CEBD Task Team on mobile phone big data, a group of more than 50 experts representing international and regional organizations as well as national statistics offices and research entities, discussing methodologies and sharing experiences related to the use of mobile phone big data for official statistics. She facilitated and delivered presentations during regional workshops and trainings and global events related to the use of mobile phone data.

She has represented ITU in international meetings including the UN Statistical Commission, the UN Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA), the UN World Data Forum (UNWDF) and other international and regional events giving presentations and trainings on ICT statistics. Before joining ITU, she worked for 7 years at the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva as a statistical officer. Ms Magpantay holds a Global Master in Business Analytics and Big Data from IE University in Madrid, Spain, and Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of the Philippines.

PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP), Master in Communication from the University of Brasília (UnB) and Bachelor in Social Sciences from USP. Research Coordinator of the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society under the auspices of UNESCO (Cetic.br), a department of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), linked to the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). Researcher in the field of public policies and communication, interested in the relationship between the Internet and public social policies, and the behavior of inequalities.

João Pedro Azevedo is UNICEF’s first Chief Statistician, appointed in February 2023 at UNICEF Headquarters to lead the organization’s global data and statistical work. Mr. Azevedo brings more than 15 years of experience in international development and five years in the Brazilian public sector both at the federal and state level. While at the World Bank he has worked as the Lead Economist, EdTech Fellow, and Education Statistics Coordinator for the Education Global Practice. He also served as a Lead Economist and Global Lead for the World Bank Poverty and Equity Global Practice, co-leading the Global Solution Group on Welfare Measurement and Statistical Capacity for Results, as well as the Data for Goals agenda. Before his tenure at the World Bank, Mr. Azevedo served as the superintendent of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Secretary of Finance for the State of Rio de Janeiro, as well as a research fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Research from the Brazilian Ministry of Planning (IPEA). He is also a former chairman of the Latin American & Caribbean Network on Inequality and Poverty. Mr. Azevedo is a Brazilian national and holds a PhD in Economics from Newcastle University. Joao Pedro has over 100 publications including several in journals such as Lancet, World Development, World Bank Research Observer and Frontier in Public Health. He is married and has twin daughters.

From the Section of Education Policy at UNESCO HQ in Paris, Juliette Norrmén-Smith specializes in education system strengthening through the nexus between digital technology and inclusion. She coordinates the Digital Transformation Collaborative, a multi-stakeholder group of UNESCO's Global Education Coalition that works with countries to develop holistic, sustainable digital transformation strategies to improve equity, quality and inclusion in education. Informed by her years as a teacher of students with special needs, her work investigates how to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of leveraging digital technologies and data for education service delivery, including learning, teaching and administration. She holds a Master's in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford, where she specialized in inclusive pedagogy for hybrid and digital learning and subsequently served as a researcher on multiple multi-stakeholder digital transformation projects for the University.

Laura is a Principal Social Researcher and the Data Collection lead for the UK Government Data Quality Hub (DQHub). Although based at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the remit of her role extends to improving the quality of all data across government.

Laura is an expert qualitative researcher with over a decade’s industry experience in designing and developing official government surveys. Prior to working in DQHub, Laura led the ONS Social Survey Transformation Research and Design Team which was responsible for the transformation of its Social Survey portfolio. There she pioneered and embedded a respondent centred approach to survey development which transformed the respondent user experience.

Laura has a passion for ensuring data are collected accurately at source, and for bringing respondent needs to forefront of survey design.

Manuella Maia Ribeiro is an Information Analyst at Cetic.br, researching government-citizen relationships using technology and coordinating the ICT Electronic Government survey. Since 2007, she has researched how governments can improve their relationship with citizens using technology. In this connection, she has studied the digital transformation of public sector service production and delivery at local, regional, and national levels in a Latin American and Brazillian context. Other research areas include open government data, transparency, and electronic participation. Manuella holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Public Administration and Government from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil) and a Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy Management from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Law from the Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Brazil). Visiting expert at the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV).

Coordinator of Quantitative Methods, Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society, Brazilian Network Information Center. Responsible for the coordination of quantitative processes at Cetic.br, including large national sample design and selection, field data collection control and quality management, data processing, development of new methodologies including small area estimation projects and non-probability samples studies. Holds a master’s degree in Population Studies and Social Research and a bachelor’s degree in Statistics at the National School of Statistical Science (ENCE).

Mark Uhrbach is currently the Section Head of Digital Economy Measurement at Statistics Canada and also responsible for the publication, Digital Insights. He has worked in the area of ICT indicators for the past 20 years at the National Statistical Organization and in related policy roles.
Mark is also active in multiple international fora related to the development of new indicators and analysis related to the digital economy. He is a former chair and current bureau member of the Working Party on Digital Economics, Measurement and Analysis at the OECD and leads the Task Team on Globalization and Digitalization as part of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Business and Trade Statistics. His current work also extends to ongoing activities as part of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s Task Team on Measuring e-Commerce.

Matija Kovacic is a research economist and policy analyst at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Matija holds a PhD in Economics from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research interests are in empirical microeconomics, health economics, and comparative development, with an emphasis on the analysis of the drivers of inequality, determinants of individual preferences, and social and cultural diversity. With his team in the Joint Research Centre, Matija is also working on the development of composite indicators and scoreboards, as well as the auditing of the existing indicators. Matija’s research has been published in several journals, including the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Population Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Social Choice and Welfare, the Journal of Peace Research, the Review of Economics of the Household, among others. Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/matijakovacic/home-page

Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva was the President of the International Statistical Institute 2015-2017, and is Principal Researcher at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). PhD. In Social Statistics (University of Southampton, 1996), Pedro’s main research interests are survey and sampling methodology applied to household and business surveys, as well as the analysis of survey data.

Pierre Chapelet is a Senior Education Programme Specialist working in the Section of Education Policy, Division of Policies and Lifelong Learning, UNESCO. Pierre is an experienced international development expert, with more than 15 years of experience managing and implementing a diverse range of projects for UN development programmes, especially in the area of education policy formulation, strategic planning and education management information systems. He has worked or consulted in over 30 countries for various agencies such as UNESCO, UNICEF and World Bank, including in emergency contexts.

Prateek Sibal is a Programme Specialist at the Digital Policies and Digital Transformation Section of the Communication and Information Sector at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. In this framework, he leads the Sector’s work on artificial intelligence and digital transformation with a focus on capacity building for the executive, legislative and the judicial branches of government. The programmes he leads have supported over 100 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe in their digital transformation journey.
He represents UNESCO at GlobalPolicy.AI, a platform of exchange on AI policies among 8 inter-governmental organisations, including the World Bank, OECD, European Commission, Inter-American Development Bank, Council of Europe. He is a member of the OECD Working Group on AI, Working Group on “Open AI Definition” of the Digital Public Goods Alliance, Law and Technology Working Group of the World Bank’s Global Forum on Law, Justice, and Development, African Union’s AI Working Group and an observer at the Council of Europe’s Committee working on the Convention on AI.
In the past, he has worked for a Member of Parliament in India, consulted for the City Government of Vancouver, REN21, Paris and founded a multilingual education start-up to publish books in tribal languages in India.
He teaches digital government at Sciences Po, Paris as an adjunct faculty.

Raphael Nishimura is the Director of Sampling Operations and the Director of the Sampling Program for Survey Statisticians at the Survey Research Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He has been working with sampling and survey statistics for over fifteen years. He holds a PhD in survey methodology from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in statistics from the University of São Paulo. His main research interest includes sampling methods, survey nonresponse and adaptive/responsive designs.

Journalist. PhD student in the Communication Sciences Program at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo (PPGCOM-ECA-USP). Coordinator of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). Special Advisor of the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation. She was a member of the Permanent Communication Commission of the National Human Rights Council between 2015 and 2022. She was coordinator of the Center for Alternative Media Studies Barão de Itararé between 2010 and 2023. Member of the Coalition Rights on the Network between 2016 and 2023. Member of the Council of Communication from the Chamber of Deputies between 2019-2020. She was a member of the Universalization and Digital Inclusion Chamber of the Internet Steering Committee in Brazil (CGI.br) between 2013 and 2020. She was General Coordinator of the National Forum for the Democratization of Communication (FNDC) between 2016-2020 and was a member of the Board of FNDC between 2011-2020.

Ronald Jansen has led the work for the United Nations Statistics Division on data innovation and statistical capacity management since 2018. In this position, he supports the work of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics, including support for the Committee’s Task Teams, Regional and Global Hubs, the UN Global Platform and the Data Science leaders Network. He received a PhD degree in May of 1990 in mathematical modelling of human information processing from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He joined the United Nations in June of 1990 where he worked in international trade and globalisation for many years and led the division’s work in this area from 2010-2018.

Scarlett Fondeur works since 2003 on e-commerce and digital economy policy and statistics at UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. She and her colleagues develop methodology to measure e-commerce and the digital economy in collaboration with the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development and other organizations, compile and publish digital economy statistics from national statistical offices and deliver technical assistance on measurement for developing countries. The team also produces the organization’s Digital Economy Report researching the implications of trends in ICT and digitalization for sustainable trade and development.

Sebastián Rovira is an Economic Affairs Officer and the Officer in Charge of the Innovation and New Technologies Unit at the Division of Production, Productivity and Management at UN-ECLAC. Their main research areas are industrialization, innovation, production structure dynamics, ICT, trade and development, being responsible of different projects of the Division, related to dynamics of innovation and digital technological.