Semana de Metodologia

Alexandre Fernandes Barbosa leads several information and communication technologies (ICT) surveys and research projects on the socioeconomic implications of ICT in Brazil. He is responsible for conducting nationwide ICT surveys for the production of ICT-related statistics on the access to and use of ICTs in different segments of society and capacity building in survey methodologies in Latin América and lusophone countries of Africa. Mr Barbosa is also the Chair of the Expert Group on ICT Households indicators from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
Mr Barbosa holds a PhD degree in Business Administration from Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), a Master Degree in Business Administration from Bradford University (UK), an MSc Degree in Computer Science from Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) and a BSc Degree in Electrical Engineering from Catholic University (Brazil). He has also conducted postdoctoral research at HEC Montreal (Canada).

Andrés is the Regional Expert on Social Statistics from the ECLAC Statistics Division, where he provides advice and assistance to National Statistical Offices and other institutions of the National Statistical Systems of beneficiary countries on social statistics, survey methodology, and small area estimation, with particular emphasis on the Sustainable Development Goals monitoring framework. He holds a PhD in statistics and has written several books, papers, and software related to survey sampling, Bayesian statistics and statistical inference.

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.

Denise Britz do N. Silva is Principal Researcher and former director of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Has also worked as a Principal Methodologist for the Office for National Statistics (ONS-UK) and as a lecturer at the University of Southampton. She completed her PhD in Statistics at the University of Southampton and has an MSc and a BSc in Statistics. She has extensive experience in teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels as well as professional development courses, and has been working as a survey statistician at IBGE for more than 30 years. Her main areas of interest are survey methods, statistical modelling for the social sciences, small area estimation and time series analysis. She is president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Edson Prestes is Professor at Institute of Informatics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He is leader of the Phi Robotics Research Group and CNPq Research Fellow. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pará (1996), Amazon, Brazil, and MSc (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) in Computer Science from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Edson is Senior Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE RAS) and IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA). Over the past years, he has been working in different initiatives related to Standardisation, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Ethics. For instance, Edson is Member of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group for the Recommendation on the Ethics of AI; Member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation; South America Ambassador at IEEE TechEthics; Chair of the IEEE RAS/SA 7007 - Ontological Standard for Ethically Driven Robotics and Automation Systems Working Group; Vice-Chair of the IEEE RAS/SA Ontologies for Robotics and Automation Working Group; Member of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems; Advisor at The Future Society; Member of UNESCO IFAP Information Accessibility Working Group; Member of the MIT/IEEE Global Council on Extended Intelligence and Past Associate Vice President on the IEEE RAS Industrial Activities Board.

Research Director at IBGE. Titular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in the area of social sciences. He holds a diploma from the National Order of Scientific Merit, Commander Class, Social and Human Sciences, awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. Visiting Professor Lemann at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign between August 2015 and May 2016. He was Professor Tinker at the University of Texas (Austin) from January to May 2006. Retired Professor of the Department of Demography and researcher at Cedeplar / UFMG (since 1980). He was a CNPq Research Productivity Scholar - Level 1 until February 2020. PhD in Demography from the University of California / Berkeley (1982-1987). Postdoctoral internship at the University of Texas-Austin (1995-1996). He was Head of the Demography Department at UFMG between 2009 and 2015. He coordinated the Postgraduate Program in Demography at Cedeplar / UFMG from 1996 to 2000. He chaired ABEP, Brazilian Association of Population Studies, between 1998 and 2002. He was from CNPD, National Population and Development Commission, between August 31, 2004 and December 2010. He was vice-president of the organizing committee of the “Population and Development Commission” of the “Economic and Social Council” of the United Nations (UN) in 2010 He was a member of the Evaluation Committee of IIASA- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in September 2014. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the IPUMS- “International Dissemination Project, Minnesota Population Center”, Universisty of Minnesota. Nationally and internationally public several works, in addition to two books and several book chapters.

A senior director at the Central Bureau of Statistics, with more than a decade of experience in official statistics.

Former Director of the Science and Technology Statistics sector. In that role, he used multiple data sources and surveys, among them the ‘enterprise ICT usage’ survey, to provide policymakers with key indicators and economic analysis on enterprise science, technology and innovation.

Holds an M.A. degree in Economics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Served as staff sergeant in the IDF infantry.

Born and raised at the Jorden valley, married to Sophie, father to three boys – Elad, Omer and Yogev.

Francesca Perucci is Assistant Director of the UN Statistics Division where she oversees the work on global development monitoring, open data, data integration and dissemination, and other global data initiatives.

Ms. Perucci initiated her career in the UN as an adviser on gender and social statistics. Since then, she has served in different positions within the UN system, where she has been an active leader in developing and promoting the use of data and statistics to inform development policies and review and monitor progress, and has pioneered new ways of producing, analyzing and communicating data to be used effectively for policy and decision making.

She has authored a number of articles on social and gender statistics, the UN publication known as The World’s Women in 1995 and 2000, and several statistical manuals on gender statistics and social statistics. She was the lead author of the MDG Report from 2005 to 2012 and currently oversees the preparation of the yearly progress report on the SDGs.

Professor Frauke Kreuter is Director of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, USA; and Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the 2020 recipient of the Warren Mitofsky Innovators Award of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. In addition to her academic work Dr. Kreuter is the Founder of the International Program for Survey and Data Science, developed in response to the increasing demand from researchers and practitioners for the appropriate methods and right tools to face a changing data environment; Co-Founder of the Coleridge Initiative, whose goal is to accelerate data-driven research and policy around human beings and their interactions for program management, policy development, and scholarly purposes by enabling efficient, effective, and secure access to sensitive data about society and the economy. coleridgeinitiative.org; and Co-Founder of the German language podcast Dig Deep

Professor João Porto de Albuquerque is Director of the Institute of Global Sustainable Development at University of Warwick, and a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He is a geographer and computer scientist with an interdisciplinary background and works in the fields of Digital Geography, Geographic Information Science and Global Sustainable Development. He develops innovative transdisciplinary research methods to improve our understanding of sociotechnical urban environments, particularly in the global South, with a view to produce transformations to sustainable development. João is currently leading a research programme on how to empower vulnerable and deprived communities in the global South to produce citizen-generated data and improve resilience to health and environmental risks. He has secured competitive research funds to implement this research programme in excess of £8.5m (£2.5m as PI) from diverse national and international funding bodies, including major grants from diverse funding agencies (e.g. Global Challenges Research Fund, ESRC, EPSRC, Belmont Forum, NIHR, FAPESP, CAPES) in collaboration with academic and non-academic partners in several countries, including Brazil, Bangladesh, Colombia, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United States.

Lorena G. Barberia is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo. Her primary fields of interest are comparative political economy, Latin American politics and political methodology. Her work analyzes redistributive politics in Latin America. At USP, Professor Barberia teaches quantitative methods for undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Political Science. She is the scientific coordinator of the Solidarity Research Network Public Policy and Society, a research project that seeks to improve the standard, calibrate the focus and improve the quality of federal, state and municipal government policies that seek to respond the COVID-19 crisis with the aim of helping to save lives in Brazil. She is Chair of the Faculty Coordinating Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA)-University of São Paulo (USP) Summer School in Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations, and a member of the Organizing Committee of the Latin American Political Methodology Annual Meeting of the Society of Political Methodology. Together with Guy D. Whitten and Andrew Q. Philips, she is responsible for the time series courses taught in the IPSA-USP Summer School. She has published several peer-reviews journal articles and four co-edited books.

Luis Aranda is an Artificial Intelligence policy analyst at the OECD, which he joined in 2017. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, a Master’s in applied math and a PhD in economics. Before joining the OECD, he worked as a Strategist and Business Program Manager at Microsoft, where he conducted executive-level strategy, operations, and end-to-end accelerated-growth projects. Luis has also worked as an engineer for Grupo Bimbo and the United Nations. His work and research interests lie at the intersection between technology, social inclusion and policy.

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 Chief of the Digital Economy Metrics Program at Statistics Canada. He has worked in the area of ICT indicators for the past 16 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 and is the current Chair of the Working Party on Measurement and Analysis of the Digital Economy at the OECD.

Maria Paz Canales is a Chilean lawyer and hold a Master's Degree with specialization in Law and Technology from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2017 Executive Director of Derechos Digitales (DD), a 15 years old independent non-profit organization based in Chile, working across Latin America on human rights in the digital environment, particularly freedom of expression, privacy, and access to knowledge and information. She was part of the group who founded the organization in 2005. On behalf of DD, she has been part for the last three years of the programing committee of LAC IGF preparatory meeting and Multistakeholder Advisory Group of global IGF. Previously, her work in private practice and academia covered telecommunications regulation, competition, data protection and intellectual property.

Maysa S. de Magalhães is Principal Researcher and Director of the National School of Statistical Sciences (ENCE) from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Has also worked as an Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (Portugal). She holds a PhD degree in Production Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She coordinated the Postgraduate Program in Population Studies and Social Research at ENCE from 2009 to 2011. She has experience in teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels. She has been acting as a reviewer for several journals. Her main areas of interest are statistical modeling for the social sciences, statistical quality control and improvement, including all aspects of control charting, profile monitoring, industrial applications of statistics. She has published several peer-reviewed journal articles. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Natália Mazotte is a Brazilian journalist and consultant specialized in data and technology. She was selected in 2019 as a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford, where she spent a year studying leadership, product management and the social implications of AI. As former Executive Director at Open Knowledge Brazil, she led award-winning civic technology projects, advocacy campaigns for open data and developed the biggest data journalism conference in the country. Mazotte has co-founded the news startup “Gênero e Número”, the Brazilian chapter of School of Data and the data-driven news agency J++ São Paulo. She also works as an instructor and lecturer in topics related to open government, data journalism and women leadership and sits on the board of several NGOs in Brazil.

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 Montagnier has been working as statistician and analyst in the field of the digital economy at the OECD for more than 20 years. He is currently in charge of ICT usage statistics both for households and individuals and for businesses. He is contributing to projects in various areas, from the measurement of platform workers to the analysis of diffusion and use of digital technologies within households and businesses. He also benefited from a two-years exchange with the French National Statistical Office (INSEE), where he worked on the Annual Business Survey and related economic studies.

Sacha is a Senior AI Policy Researcher & Head of Community Development at The Future Society. Her research centers on privacy, fairness and civic engagement. She leads our community of over 60 advisors and affiliates with interests in AI ethics, safety and existential risks, as well as AI to achieve sustainable development goals. Prior to joining The Future Society, Sacha worked for the pioneering Civic Tech bluenove, a software and digital innovation company specialized in collective intelligence, as well as for the OECD Development Center in Paris and leading think tanks in Brazil and Chile. Sacha is Franco-Chilean.

Sasha Rubel is programme specialist in the Communication and Information Sector at UNESCO. In this framework, she coordinates the Organization's work on artificial intelligence, digital transformation in the follow up to the World Summit on the Information Society, and internet governance. From 2013-2018, Sasha was liaison officer to the African Union and Economic Commission for Africa and Advisor in the Sahel for issues related to digital transformation and innovation, access to information, and freedom of expression. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure, she holds an MA in anthropology and new media studies, and has undertaken a PHD in the anthropology of new technologies and digital transformation.