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 data on information and communication technologies (ICT) for monitoring national policies and international goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Coordinates capacity-building programs on survey methodologies in Latin America and Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa. Member of the Consultative Committee of the Brazilian Census (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics [IBGE]) and Board of Counselors of the Innovation Center for Brazilian Education  (CIEB). He was chair of the Expert Group on ICT Household Indicators (EGH) at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), from 2012 to 2017, and is an expert at the OECD Working Party on Measurement and Analysis of the Digital Economy and Working Party on Artificial Intelligence Governance.

Holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV, Brazil), a master’s degree in business administration from Bradford University (UK), a MSc in computer science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil), a BSc in electrical engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas, Brazil), and conducted postdoctoral research at HEC Montreal (Canada).

Andrés is the Regional Adviser on Social Statistics at the ECLAC Statistics Division, where he provides advice and technical assistance to National Statistical Offices and other institutions within the National Statistical Systems of beneficiary countries. His work focuses on social statistics, household survey methodology, and small area estimation models, with particular emphasis on the Sustainable Development Goals monitoring framework. He has also served as Vice-President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians and has authored several books, research papers, and software related to survey sampling, small area estimation and statistical inference.

Bernardo Martinho Ballardin is a Data Analyst at Cetic.br, where he contributes to large-scale research initiatives dedicated to the measurement and analysis of ICT access and use. In recent years, he has coordinated Cetic.br’s ICT Panel - Information Integrity, a research initiative aligned with the information integrity agenda that examines how individuals access and verify information online, their use of social media, their perceptions of the Brazilian information ecosystem, and the skills required to critically assess information on the Internet.
He holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP), where his academic work focused on the interrelations between platformization, digital algorithms, and platform labor.

Cristine Hoepers is the General Manager of CERT.br, the Brazilian National CERT of last resort, maintained by NIC.br. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Computing from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research and currently servers in the Board of Comissioners of the OpenCSIRT Foundation. Her work focuses on helping the establishment of new Incident Response Teams in the Country, delivering incident management training, and developing best practices to increase Internet resilience. She is also a SIM3 Maturity Model Auditor and an SEI-Authorized instructor and has trained more than 2000 professionals in Incident Handling since 2004. In 2024 she was inducted to the FIRST Incident Response Hall of Fame and in 2020 she received from M3AAWG the annual Mary Litynski Award for her work to reduce Internet abuse and increase Internet resilience. In the past she served as a member of the FIRST Board of Directors, as a Lead Expert of the UN IGF Best Practice Forum on CERTs and on Spam, and as a member of the ITU HLEG (High Level Experts Group).

Daniel Ker is Head of E-commerce and Digital Trade measurement at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). As Secretariat lead for the Task Group on Measuring E-commerce Value (TG-eCOM), he has spearheaded development of the international Guidelines and Recommendations on Measuring E-commerce Value as well as the UNCTAD global database on E-commerce sales. Daniel is also an author of the IMF-OECD-UNCTAD-WTO Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade and has extensive experience of supporting countries through capacity building and technical assistance. Before joining UNCTAD in 2021, Daniel spent five years at the OECD working on R&D statistics and measuring various aspects of the digital economy. This included co-authoring the G20 Roadmap toward a common framework for measuring the digital economy and flagship report “Measuring the Digital Transformation”. Prior to that, Daniel worked at the United Kingdom Office for National Statistics in labour market statistics, National Accounts, and as co-Deputy Director for Public Sector Statistics.

Demi Getschko has been involved in international networking since 1987 and took part on the team that established the first Internet connection to Brazil. He has been a member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) since its creation in 1995 and has served as administrative contact for the ccTLD .br since 1989. He played a critical role in the definition of the Brazilian DNS tree and in defining the rules that govern the Brazilian registry. Founding member of ISOC Brasil (Internet Society in Brazil), 1995.
He holds BSc, MSc, and PhD, degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He was selected for the ICANN Board by the ccNSO - Country Code Names Supporting Organization - in 2005. Currently he works as Associate Professor in Computing Architecture at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), a Board Member of CGI.br and CEO of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). In 2014 he was elected the first Brazilian to appear on the Hall of Fame of the Internet to "Global Connectors" category for his "key role in establishing the first Internet connection in Brazil." The ceremony was held in Hong Kong by the Internet Society.
He was awarded the Cristina Tavares Prize, by the Brazilian Computer Society. He was also awarded the "Personality of Technology in 2014" Prize by SEESP (Engineering Union of São Paulo State) in the category "Internet" in recognition of scientific and technological work and its dedication and commitment to the country development. He was admitted to the Communications Merit Order at the “Officer Degree” as a way of acknowledging his relevant services rendered to Communications.

Principal Researcher at the Society for the Development of Scientific Research (SCIENCE). Previously, she worked for many years at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Southampton and has over 35 years of experience as a survey methodologist. Additionally, she has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Denise is currently vice president of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), editor of the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and was president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) in 2019-2021. Her main areas of interest are survey methods, official statistics, and statistical education.

Éireann Leverett has spent the last two decades working at the intersection of cyber security, risk, and economics. He specialises in cyber risk quantification and uncertainty reduction and has applied his skills to critical infrastructure protection, catastrophe modelling, cyber insurance, ransomware, and vulnerability forecasting. He is the co-author of Solving Cyber Risk, and numerous academic papers. He is a proud graduate of the University of Edinburgh (BEng AI and Software Engineering), and the University of Cambridge (MPhil Advance Computer Science (Security group), and he is grateful you read his bio all the way to the end.

Full professor of statistics at the University of Bologna, elected Council Members of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (2025-2029), Chair of the (ISI) Special Interest Group on Data Science, elected Council member of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), and member of the ISI Committee on Agricultural Statistics, she started her academic career after having reached, at the age of 28, a managerial position in the R&D department “Remote sensing and geographic information systems” of a leading Italian company. She has led and participated in research projects in collaboration with European and UN organizations and national institutions, among which FAO, EUROSTAT, JRC, UNECE, USDA, Chinese Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Ethiopian CSO, Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Istat. She has contributed to design and start-up the implementation of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics, a joint initiative promoted by UN agencies. She was Coordinator of the Sample Survey Group of the Italian Statistical Society (2015-2017) and board member of the European Master in Official Statistics (2018-2020). Her main research topics are data science, sample survey design, use of geospatial information and administrative data for agricultural, rural, agri-environmental, and environmental monitoring.

Research Coordinator at the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), linked to the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). Researcher in the field of digital inequalities, is currently responsible for planning and implementing ICT-related research projects in Brazil, as well as cooperating with Latin America and Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa to strengthen international comparability of indicators. Mr. Senne has integrated expert groups leaded by international organizations such as UNESCO, OECD, UN-ECLAC and PAHO-WHO. Mr Senne holds a PhD degree in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (Brazil), a Master Degree in Communication from University of Brasília (Brazil) and a BSc Degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (Brazil).

Florian Dumpert heads a division at the Federal Statistical Office of Germany that develops methodological and technological solutions and architectures for statistics production. The focus of his work is on the quality-assured integration and use of machine learning for the purpose of digitalisation, standardisation and automation of official statistics. His research interests include statistical machine learning, statistical data processing and imputation. He regularly participates in national and international projects on these topics and represents the disciplines in relevant working groups and committees.

Fredrik Eriksson is a Senior Data Scientist of the ICT Data and Analytics division of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with 20 years of experience in quantitative analysis from international organisations and across the private sector. Fredrik has previously been responsible for ITU’s data collection on ICT household statistics, and re-joined ITU in 2021 to focus on ITU’s work on big data and geospatial analysis after spending a few years building a Data Science team in the private sector. 
Prior to first joining ITU, he worked in the finance sector and spent eight years at the OECD analysing international finance flows for economic development. Fredrik holds a Master’s degree in Statistics from Uppsala University in Sweden.

Social Scientist and researcher with over 23 years of experience, currently Coordinator of Sectoral Studies and Qualitative Methods at the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), a department of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). From 2017 to 2022, she served as Managing Director of CEBRAP (Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning), where she also coordinated the Development Research Center. Her earlier roles include Senior Manager at Ipsos Public Affairs Brazil (2010–2015) and Researcher at CEBRAP (2001–2010). She was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, UK, in 2004 and 2008. In 2015, she lectured in Research Methodology for Market and Public Opinion at the postgraduate program in Marketing and Communication at Mackenzie Presbyterian University in São Paulo.

DSc in Statistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2013), currently serving as a researcher and professor at the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE|IBGE). His areas of expertise include Bayesian statistics, statistical models for social networks, applied statistics, and spatial statistics. He previously held the positions of Undergraduate Coordinator and Substitute General Coordinator at ENCE, and currently serves as the institutional representative of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) at the same institution.

Nanno Mulder is Chief of the International Trade Unit in the International Trade and Integration Division of ECLAC. His main areas of research and technical assistance include global value chains—particularly in services—digital trade and e-commerce, and sustainable trade, with a focus on SME internationalization, gender gaps, and the circular economy.
Mr. Mulder previously worked as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the Latin America team of the Economics Department (2002–2005), and as a researcher at the French Centre d’Études Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII) (1996–2002). He holds a Master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

I work at the intersection of the digital economy, artificial intelligence adoption, and internet infrastructure, focusing on how data and metrics inform technology policy and strategic decision-making.
I am a Senior Researcher at Cetic.br, where I lead the design, implementation, and analysis of large-scale national surveys on technology adoption by Brazilian companies. My role involves close collaboration with government agencies, regulators, and industry associations, translating empirical evidence into actionable insights for public policy, regulatory frameworks, and digital development strategies.
I hold a PhD and a Master’s degree in Sociology from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Instituto de Estudos Avançados da USP (IEA/USP).
My core interests include the measurement and adoption of artificial intelligence, internet infrastructure and data centers, and the role of evidence and institutions in shaping national and corporate digital strategies.

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).

Nicolas Benoit is a Junior Economist in the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation where he works on measuring digital transformation’s impact on the economy and society. His main areas of expertise are digital technology diffusion, e-commerce, digital trade and cybersecurity. Prior joining the OECD, he served as a Macroeconomic Analyst in the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Burkina Faso.
Mr Benoit, a French and Burkinabè national, holds a Bachelors degree in International Relations from the University of Geneva and a Masters degree in International Economics and Development from Paris Dauphine University (PSL).

Paulo Saraiva is Director of Data Collection and Management at Statistics Portugal. He leads the operational modernization of data collection and data management for official statistical production in Portugal, with particular emphasis on the integration of business and household surveys, censuses, administrative data, especially fiscal data, and other emerging sources. He has strong management experience and has been responsible for major projects such as the National Data Infrastructure, the 2021 Population and Housing Census of Portugal, and the 2019 Portuguese Agricultural Census. His expertise includes process-quality management in official statistics, with a focus on quality assurance, interoperability, metadata, coordinated production processes, and the efficient use of resources. He has contributed as co-author and expert to international work on multi-source statistics under the framework of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe High-Level Group for the Modernisation of Official Statistics, including the Handbook on Multi-Source Statistics (March 2026). He is also a member of the Organising Committee of the UNECE Expert Meeting on Statistical Data Collection and Sources and has further contributed to ongoing work within the European Statistical System on access to privately held data.

Pedro Luis do Nascimento Silva was the President of the International Statistical Institute 2015-2017, and is Vice-President of SCIENCE. PhD. In Social Statistics (University of Southampton, 1996), Pedro’s main research interests are survey and sampling methodology, and the analysis of survey data.

Raphael Nishimura is the Director of Sampling Operations of the Survey Research Operations within the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research of University of Michigan. 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. He has been working with surveys for 20 years, both in the private and academic sectors. His main research interest includes sampling and weighting methods, survey nonresponse and adaptive/responsive designs.

Rodrigo Brandão is a researcher at the Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), a department of the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br). Previously, he served as a research fellow at the University of São Paulo’s (USP) Center for Artificial Intelligence, Advocacy and Public Policy Manager at Endeavor Brazil, Institutional Relations Specialist at Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, and Assistant Coordinator of Studies and Debates at the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation. He holds a PhD in Sociology, a Master’s in Political Science, a specialization in Economics, and a Bachelor’s in Social Sciences, all from the University of São Paulo (USP).

Dr. Stefaan G. Verhulst is an expert in using data and technology for social impact. He is the Co-Founder of several research organizations including the Governance Laboratory (GovLab) at New York University and The DataTank in Brussels where he serves in leadership positions. As a research professor at the Tandon School of Engineering of New York University, he focuses on using advances in science and technology, including data and artificial intelligence, to improve decision-making and problem-solving. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the open-access journal Data & Policy and has served as a member of several expert groups on data and technology, including the High-Level Expert Group to the European Commission on Business-to-Government Data Sharing and the Expert Group to Eurostat on using Private Sector data for Official Statistics. Dr. Verhulst has been recognized as one of the 10 Most Influential Academics in Digital Government globally. He has published extensively on these topics, including several books, and has been invited to speak at international conferences, including TED and the UN World Data Forum. He is asked regularly to provide counsel on data stewardship to a variety of public and private organizations.

Tatevik Grigoryan works at UNESCO as an Associate Programme Specialist for Digital Policies and Digital Transformation. She leads UNESCO’s work on advancing rights‑based, open, accessible, and multi‑stakeholder approaches to Internet governance, with a focus on evidence‑based and data‑driven policymaking. She also works on data governance in Asia and the Pacific.

Prior to her current role, she worked on media and information literacy at UNESCO. Before joining the Organization, she served at the OSCE Secretariat, where she focused on combating transnational organized crime and cybercrime, as well as exploring the use of AI within law enforcement and the judiciary.

Trent D. Buskirk, Ph.D. is a Professor and Provost Fellow of Data Science in the new School of Data Science at Old Dominion University. Prior to this appointment, Trent was the Novak Family Distinguished Professor of Data Science and outgoing Chair of the Applied Statistics and Operations Research Department at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Buskirk is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and his research interests include big data quality, recruitment methods through social media, the use of big data and machine learning methods and Large Language Models for health, social and survey science design and analysis, fairness in AI models and interpretable ML methods. Trent has also been involved in various professional organizations serving as the President of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research in 2016, the Conference Chair for AAPOR in 2018 and as part of the scientific committee for the BigSurv series of conferences which began in 2018. Trent has also served as an Associate Editor for Methods for the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. When Trent is not geeking out over data science, big data or survey methodology, you can find him playing a competitive game of Pickleball!

Wesley Yung is the former Director General of the Modern Statistical Methods and Data Science Branch at Statistics Canada, where he led a team of approximately 450 experts advancing methodological innovation, data science, and the modernization of official statistics. Over a career spanning more than three decades, he has held progressively senior leadership roles across the agency, including Director of the International Cooperation and Methodology Innovation Center and Director of the Business Survey Methods Division.
A recognized expert in survey methodology, variance estimation, small area estimation, and the integration of administrative and machine learning methods into official statistics, Dr. Yung has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and international conference contributions. His research has helped shape modern practices in business surveys, statistical algorithm quality, non-response follow-up, and the use of administrative and tax data.
Dr. Yung holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Carleton University and an M.Sc. and B.Sc. (Honours) in Statistics from Dalhousie University. Throughout his career, he has worked extensively with national and international partners, contributing to the modernization of official statistics.