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e-Frame “European Framework for Measuring Progress” (FP7 project)

Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies

26-28 June 2012, OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France

Photos and Biographies of Speakers

Nadim AHMAD is currently the Head of the Trade and Productivity section in the Statistics Directorate of the OECD, which he joined in 2000. He is also leading the OECD’s horizontal project on the development of Trade in Value-Added indicators. Nadim worked in the UK’s Office for National Statistics and Ministry of Finance (HM Treasury) before joining the OECD. He has considerable experience in a number of areas relating to economic statistics, in particular the National Accounts, Input-Output tables, and entrepreneurship statistics.

Giovanni A. BARBIERI, a regional economist by raising and by passion, has been a free-lance in applied economics and a professional user of statistics since 1977, before moving to Istat (Statistics Italy) in 1994. After managing for many years the areas of users’ needs, integration, dissemination, and territory, he is currently in charge of the Directorate of Structural Economic Statistics on Enterprises and Institutions, International Trade and Consumer Prices. He is in the Bureau of the Working Party on Territorial Indicators in OECD.

Eduardo BARREDO CAPELOT has Academic degrees in Economics and Geography by the Universities of Madrid and London, respectively, and postgraduate studies at the College of Europe, in Bruges. He has developed most of his professinal career in Eurostat, where he is currently the Director for Social Statistics. He has worked in the areas of external trade and balance of payments statistics (also at the IMF), national accounts and government finance statistics, and business statistics.

Luigi BIGGERI is emeritus professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Firenze (Italy) and member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the International Comparison Program of the World Bank. He has published more than 200 works and has been president of Italian Statistical Society (SIS), from 1996 to 2000, and president of the Italian National Statistical Institute (Istat), from 2011 to 2009.

Lidia BRATANOVA is the Director of the Statistical Division of the UN Economic Commission for Europe since June 2009. She has 30 years of experience in official statistics, with focus on economic statistics.

She joined the UNECE in 1996. From 2003 she was Secretary of the Conference of European Statisticians and Deputy Director. She was responsible for and involved in a broad range of activities, such as the impact of globalization on national accounts, measuring sustainable development, and more recently time-use surveys, modernization of statistical production, environment statistics and climate change related statistics.

Prior to joining the UNECE, Mrs. Bratanova worked for 3 years with the Statistics Directorate of OECD in Paris, specializing in economies in transition and in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

She is Bulgarian and from 1981 to 1992 worked at the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria.

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Monica BREZZI is Head of the Regional Analysis and Statistics Unit in the Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development of the OECD. She has worked on the analysis of regional comparative advantages and the assessment of policies to reduce inequalities in the access to key services for citizens. She was the editor of the 2009 and 2011 editions of the OECD Regions at a Glance and of the book Redefining urban: a new way to measure metropolitan areas (OECD Publishing 2012). She spearheaded the initiative to launch and disseminate OECD eXplorer, an interactive graphic web tool to help decision makers and citizens develop a better knowledge of their society using statistical information. Before joining the OECD, she worked for the Ministry of Economic Development in Italy where she contributed to design and launch a performance-based policy to measure the efficiency of local public services. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Padua, Italy.

Pierre CAHUC is professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique. He is director of the Macroeconomic Laboratory of ENSAE-CREST and research fellow at CEPR, and a former member of the French Economic Advisory Council to the French Prime Minister. He also joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999 and, since 2004, he has been IZA Program Director for "Labor Markets and Institutions”.

Unemployment and the microfoundations of macroeconomics with a special concern for labor market are his main fields of research. His papers are published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal or Economics, the International Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Public Economics, Economics Letter, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, the Review of International Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and other journals.

Bea CANTILLON is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has published widely and internationally on a wide range of issues relating to poverty, social policy, social security, the welfare state, and gender. She has acted as a consultant to, among others, the OECD, the European Commission and the Belgian government. Next to being the Chair of the National Administration for Family Allowances, she also served as a Belgian senator (1995-1999) and was the president of the National Reform Commission on the Belgian Social Security for independent workers (2000-2002). Prof. Cantillon is Secretary-General of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security, President of the Social Security Association - Belgian Department and a member of the general board of EQUALSOC. As of 2003 she is also a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy. Prof. Cantillon served as a Chair of the General Assembly UFSIA (2002-2003) and as vice-president of the University of Antwerp (2004-2008). The Centre for Social Policy, linked to Prof. Bea Cantillon, has been recognized as a Centre of Excellence under the Flemish Methusalem program, granting substantial long-term structural financing to support internationally recognized scientific research.

Tim CLODE is a professional statistician with twenty years experience working with official statistics, specialising in the fields of international relations, statistical conferencing, measurements of staff perception, UK national statistics, business registers, statistical training and consultancy, and international statistical capacity building.

Françoise CROUÏGNEAU is the Vice-president of Ajef (French Association of Economic and Financial Journalists) she has held positions as the Editor of the newspaper, les Echos, and the Head of international economics for the newspaper Le Monde. She holds a Degree in Sociology and a Masters in Communication.

Daniel DAIANU Professor of economics, The School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest; former member of the European Parliament (2007-2009); Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Banca Comerciala Romana (2005-2007); Finance Minister of Romania, 1997/1998; Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania, 1992-1997; Deputy Minister of Finance, 1992; member of the Romanian Academy; member of the European Council on Foreign Relations; visiting professorships at Berkeley, UCLA, Bologna University, etc. Honorary President of the Romanian Association of European Studies; Member of the Black Sea Region Commission. author of “Which Way Goes Capitalism?”, CEU Press, Budapest/New York, 2009; ‘The Macroeconomics of EU Integration: The Case of Romania”, Rosetti Educational, Bucharest, 2008; with Radu Vranceanu (ed.), Ethical Boundaries of Capitalism”, Ashgate (UK), 2005; with Thanos Veremis (ed.), “Balkan Reconstruction”, London, Frank Cass, 2001; “Transformation As A Real Process”, Aldershot (UK), Ashgate, 1998; “Economic Vitality and Viability. A Dual Challenge for European Security” Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 1996

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Michele DAU is the Deputy Secretary general of CNEL - National Council of Economy and Labour (from 1997), a constitutional public Institution as well as the Vice Chair Of OECD - LEED Committee (from 2003) and the Deputy Secretary general of AICESIS (International association of Economic and Social Councils) (from 2009). He holds a degrees in “urban history” from Roma University (1975) and a Ph.D. in economic planning (1978). He studied at London School of Economics “economic and social globalisation”. He has held previous posts as a researcher at the CENSIS Foundation, a professor at Roma University as well as the Vice President of ITALIA LAVORO and an advisor for the Infrasturcture Minister.

Nicola DE MICHELIS is the Deputy Head of Cabinet of Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Regional Policy, he has held previous positions in the European Commission as the head of economic analysis unit in the regional policy DG as well as an official in the DG external relations, Asia directorate. Mr De Michelis holds a degree in economics from the University of Modena.

Lewis DIJKSTRA is the Deputy Head of the Analysis Unit in the Directorate-General for Regional Policy of the European Commission. He is responsible for the Cohesion Reports and the development of new regional and urban indicators. For his work he has initiated joint projects with Eurostat, the OECD, the Joint Research Centre, the World Bank and the European Environmental Agency. He has published articles on issues such as regional quality of government, regional competitiveness, labour mobility, metropolitan regions, patterns of economic growth and urbanisation. He holds a PhD in Urban and regional planning.

Martine DURAND was appointed Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD in 2010. Formally OECD Deputy-Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, she currently oversees all of the OECD’s statistical activities and is responsible for providing strategic orientation for the Organisation’s statistical policy. She is also responsible for OECD work on the measurement of well-being and the progress of societies. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and publications in the area of international competitiveness, pensions, labour markets and international migration. She graduated in mathematics, statistics and economics from the Paris VI University, Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Gerard J. EDING is currently the director of National Accounts at Statistics Netherlands. He studied macro-economics and regional economics at the University of Groningen [Cum Laude]. Before his position as director of National accounts Gerard worked in various [management] positions in different areas within Statistics Netherlands, such as Government Finance Statistics, Business Statistics and Social and Spatial Statistics. He also worked as a researcher at the University of Groningen and as a consultant for a [semi-] private research institute TNO Inro, working on regional and transportation economic issues.

Hubert ESCAITH is the World Trade Organization's Chief Statistician. In this function, he supervises the compilation, analysis and dissemination of trade and market access data. The work includes research and development activities on methodological issues related to the monitoring of international trade and trade policies. Before joining the WTO in 2006, he worked for the United Nations, first in the Middle East, then in Latin America and the Caribbean, where he held various positions related to statistics, macroeconomics, trade and economic development aspects. He holds a Doctorate in Mathematics Applied to Economics from the University of Toulouse (France) and a Master from ESSEC Business School (Paris-Cergy, France).

John EVANS is General Secretary of the Paris-based Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC - www.tuac.org).

Education: 1973, Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford.

Former posts including positions with: the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels; International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees, Geneva; and Economic Department, Trades Union Congress, London.

Past not-for profit board positions including the Global Reporting Initiative and the Helsinki Group.

Currently, Member: Comité Médicis, Amundi; Conseil d'Orientation, IDDRI.

Vice-Chair, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Employment and Social Protection.

Glenn EVERETT, Programme Director, Measuring National Well-being. Career statistician. Initial career in Australian Bureau of Statistics working on range of outputs from social (eg Population Census) to economic statistics (eg labour market). Moved to UK early 1990s and joined Employment Department in London as a statistician. Moved to the (then) Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) as senior statistician to lead Structural Fund review and develop regional statistics. Promoted in 2000 to Director and Chief Adviser on Statistics at DTI. Joined the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 2005 to be Programme Director for Allsopp programme developing statistics for economic policy. At completion of programme, became head of Neighbourhood Statistics Services Programme to mainstream development work and fully relocate relevant staff from London to ONS's Titchfield office. Relocated to Newport from London in 2010 to head National Accounts. Appointed Programme Director for Measuring National Well-being 1 April 2012.

Donatella FAZIO is Head of the European R&D Projects Unit in the Directorate of Development of Information Systems and Corporate Products, Information Management and Quality Assessment of Istat - Italian National Institute of Statistics. University Degree in Statistics and Demography she has 24 years work experience in Istat. Senior expert in European research policies in the statistical field. Presently Project Manager of two FP7 projects led by Istat, funded by the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, Theme 8, Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities: BLUE-ETS- Enterprise and Trade Statistics (GA 244767- research project based on a consortium of 14 partners, duration 1 April 2010-31 March 2013) and e-Frame- European Framework for Measuring Progress (GA 290520- coordinating and support actions project, based on a consortium of 19 partners, duration 1 January 2012-30 June 2014). Extensive statistical expertise in the fields of territorial statistics, Census, demographic and economic surveys. Great experience in coordination, she played the roles of Head of unit, Head of division, gaining great experience in the management of complex projects related to official statistical information. Coordinator of activities for the dissemination and communication of official statistical research and data.

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Michael F. FÖRSTER is a senior analyst at the OECD Social Policy Division. He has been involved in successive OECD work on income distribution and poverty since the mid-1990s. He is co-author of “Growing Unequal?” (OECD 2008) and “Divided we Stand” (OECD 2011) and is currently directing several follow-up projects to these studies. Author of various journal articles, research papers and book contributions, Mr. Förster is an Austrian citizen and holds a Ph.D. from University of Liège, Belgium.

Enrico GIOVANNINI. President of Istat since August 4th, 2009. He is President of the Statistical Advisory Board for the Human Development Report of the United Nations, Member of the Partnership Group of the European Statistical Committee and Chairman of the Board of the World Bank International Project for the measurement of purchasing power parity. From January 2001 to July 2009, he was Chief Statistician and Director of the Statistics Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he designed and implemented a thorough reform of the statistical system, organised the "World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Politics" and launched the Global Project on the "Measurement of Progress in Society". He has authored numerous publications and has been a member of important national and international committees, such as the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Committee, established by the French President Nikolas Sarkozy. He has also been President of the Global Council of the World Economic Forum on the "Evaluation of Societal Progress". For his work on the measurement of social welfare, in 2010, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the President of the Republic by the Pio Manzù International Centre and became a member of the Club of Rome. He is full professor of statistical economics at University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

Anne-Catherine GUIO works for CEPS/Instead in Luxembourg and is involved in « Second Network for the analysis of EU-SILC » (Net-SILC2) that regroups European National Statistical Institutes, Universities and Research Centrum working on EU-SILC data.

Her research interests are related to poverty and social inclusion field and more specifically to the development and the analysis of poverty and deprivation indicators. She has been involved in different working group on social indicators at the Belgian level and at the European level. Between 2002 and 2006, she worked as a national expert in Eurostat on poverty and deprivation indicators.

She worked on the methodology of the material deprivation indicators adopted at the EU level in 2009 and used in the Europe 2020 strategy and currently works on the revision of these EU deprivation indicators.

Edgar HERTWICH is director of the Industrial Ecology Program at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on global production-consumption relationships, including emissions associated with international trade and with different consumption patterns, as well as on the assessment of environmental and resource implications of climate mitigation. He currently serves as a member of the International Resource Panel, where he directed a study on Priority Products and Materials, and as a Lead Author of the 5

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assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is a co-author of the Carbon Footprint of Nations.

Rutger HOEKSTRA is a senior statistical researcher in the department of national accounts of Statistics Netherlands. Presently he leads, together with his colleague Jan Pieter Smits, the UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Taskforce for Measuring Sustainable Development. He is also co-chair of the Consortium Management Board of the E-frame consortium and was member of the advisory board of the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) project (both FP7 projects).

Rutger Hoekstra graduated from Wageningen University and did his PhD in environmental economics at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has worked at Statistics Netherlands since 2003.

At Statistics Netherlands, Rutger Hoekstra has led a variety of project on tourism, productivity and the knowledge economy. In the last 5 years has worked on the Sustainability Monitor for the Netherlands.

Rutger has published numerous scientific articles, book chapters, conference papers, working papers and a book ("Economic growth, material flows and the environment: New applications of structural decomposition analysis and physical input-output tables", Edward Elgar Publishers, 2005).

Agnès HUBERT has been an adviser in the Bureau of European Policy advisers since 2005. the mission of BEPA is to provide the President and his college of Commissioners with strategic thinking and policy advice .

Before joining BEPA, Agnes Hubert - a graduate in Economics (Bsc and DEA) and in Political Science (DEA) of the University of Paris 1 - has held responsibilities in Development & cooperation, communication and social & employment policy (head of the Unit Equal Opportunities for Women), contributed to the White paper on European Governance and was seconded for 2 years to the European Parliament.

In BEPA she is a member of the analysis team and has held responsibility for reports on Social Innovation, Youth, Migration and Gender.

She has a specific expertise in the fields of gender, social and employment policy and fundamental rights. She is the author of two books (“L'Europe et les femmes, identités en mouvement”, ed. Apogée, and “Democracy and Information Society in Europe”, in Forward Studies series – Kogan page) and of numerous articles and academic contributions in the field of gender equality and European integration.

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Tim JENKINS directs the Great Transition Initiatives work at nef including integration of all programme work, movement building and public campaigning work, and the development of a new macro-economic model.

Previously Tim was Policy Director at Friends of the Earth and Head of Sustainable Economies at the Sustainable Development Commission. He is also a founder Director of the Aldersgate Group.

Tim has researched and published work on a range of issues including the employment impacts of environmental policies, environmental taxation and innovation. His PhD examined the relationship between environmental regulations and innovation.

Jeni KLUGMAN is the Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank Group. In her current role, she acts as lead spokesperson for gender equality issues, and is responsible for promoting the institution’s gender and development priorities following the release of the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development. She currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Benchmarking Progress and Advisory Board on Sustainability and Competitiveness, and is a fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association.

Prior to taking up this position in August 2011, Ms. Klugman was the director and lead author of three global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme: Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development (2009); The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development (2010); and, Sustainability and Equity: a Better Future for All (2011). From 1992-2008, she held various positions at the World Bank, focusing in particular on poverty, inequality and human development in low income countries in Africa, Europe and Asia.

Ms. Klugman has published a number of books, papers and reports on topics ranging from poverty reduction strategies and labour markets to conflict, health reform, education and decentralization. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University, as well as postgraduate degrees in Law and Development Economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Orsolya LELKES is a Senior Research Fellow at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (Vienna) since March 2005. Her main fields of expertise include research on poverty across countries, social inclusion, social impact of tax- and benefit policies, and subjective well-being. From 2002 to 2005 she was in charge of setting up a new research unit at the Ministry of Finance in Hungary, and was member of the Economic Policy Committee (EPC). She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.

Yves LETERME was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD on 8 December 2011. He is in charge of Social Affairs, Education, Governance and Entrepreneurship.

Before joining the OECD, Yves Leterme held a variety of political posts in Belgium at all levels and in all areas of government. After starting his career as an alderman in his home town of Ypres, he became a Deputy in the Chamber of Representatives, Group Chairman, National Secretary and Chairman of the CD&V party, Minister-President of the Flemish Government, Federal Senator, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Budget and Mobility, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister. Yves Leterme is currently Minister of State and a municipal councillor in Ypres.

At a professional level, Yves Leterme has worked, inter alia, as a deputy auditor at the Belgian Court of Audit and an administrator at the European Parliament.

Yves Leterme, who was born on 6 October 1960, has a degree in Law and Political Science from the University of Ghent.

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Denis LEYTHIENNE graduated from ENSAE (French National School of Statistics) and from the universities of Paris and Grenoble before joining the European Commission in 1992. He has worked at Eurostat since 1999 where he was in charge of developing European quarterly and annual sector accounts in cooperation with the European Central Bank. Mr Leythienne has coordinated the work of the taskforce 'Household Perspective' that studied how the European Statistical System could implement the recommendations of the Stiglitz/Sen/Fitoussi Commission in the field of economic statistics.

Jean-Louis LHERITIER is currently head of Consumer Prices, Household Resources and Living Conditions Department in Insee: CPI, Statistics on Income, Personal Wealth, Housing, Household Budget, Time Use, Deprivation, Crime and Victimisation, Homeless, ICT.

From 2003 to 2007, He was in charge of European and Multilateral Relations of Insee. He participated in the implementation of the new statistical governance in Europe, especially the European Code of Practice.

Previously, He was in charge of External Trade Statistics in the French Custom Administration.

Gang LIU is an Economist/Statistician at the OECD statistics directorate, is currently leading the OECD human capital project that aims to measure human capital for comparative analysis both across countries and over time. The project is in the form of an international consortium, consisting of eighteen countries and two international organizations.

Stéfan LOLLIVIER is the Inspecteur Général of the Insee (French Institute of Statistics) and has held various posts in the Institute since 1994. He was also the Director of the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) from 1999 to 2004. He is a a co-chairman of the European Task Force about Quality of Life in charge of the implementation of the Stiglitz recommendations as well as a member of the scientific Council of the INED. He holds degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE).

Radek MALÝ is the Head of Unit for Social Analysis in the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. He has worked for the European Commission since 2005, before his current post he was heading the Employment Analysis Unit. Prior to this, he has worked a number of years in the financial sector as an economist for Citibank in the Czech Republic. He has also acted as an external advisor to the Office of the Czech President Vaclav Havel. He has graduated from the Prague School of Economics (Labour Economics) and the Oxford University (European Politics and Society). He is married with two children.

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Robert MANCHIN is the Managing Director of The Gallup Organisation Europe and director of the Institute for Advanced Behavioral Studies.

As a social scientist, Robert Manchin began his career at the Institute of Sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, where he was the head of the Quality of Life Research Unit.

He is a veteran in the field of survey research having been participated in the first large-scale comparative East-West time budget survey in the sixties as an intern and have conducted hundreds of surveys since related to quality of life and well-being.

At Gallup he developed the methodology and was responsible for the Flash Eurobarometer project as well as running large-scale comparative survey projects. Among others he is at present in charge of WorldPoll in Europe.

Antonio MARZANO is the Honorary President of the AICESIS (International Association of the Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions).

He has been confirmed President of the Italian Council for Economy and Labour (CNEL) with DPR (Decree of the President of the Republic) dated 28

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Member of the promoting Committee for the celebrations of the centenary of Confindustria (2010)

July 2009-July 2011 President of the AICESIS

Former Minister for Productive Activities (2001 – 2005) and Member of Parliament (1996-2005)

Antonio Marzano has been full professor of Economic and Financial Politics at the faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Rome (since 1974) and professor of Economic Policies at the LUISS University of Rome (since 1978).

Former chairman of the faculty of Economics and Trade at the Abruzzo University (1968-1971), director of the Institute for Economic, Financial and Statistical Studies at the faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Rome (1974-1980), and professor of History and Monetary Policies at the same faculty (1971-1974).

He has been member of the CNEL (Italian Council for Economy and Labour) as an expert, member of the Committee for the privatisations (Draghi Committee at the Treasury Ministry) and member of the Warranty Commission on Statistical Information (Presidency of the Council of Ministers).

He has been member of the board of numerous companies, among which Agip Nucleare, Cassa di Risparmio di Roma, Banca di Roma and Banco di Sicilia. He has been President of the COFIRI.

He has been called to be part of various organisms, among which: the Commission for the general report on the economic situation of the country, at the Ministry for the Budget; the study Commission on public debt, at the Treasury Ministry; the Committee for mid-term industrial policies, at the European Economic Commission; the Committee for economic planning, at the Ministry for the Budget; the Committee for the high consultancy on the productivity and the efficiency of the public expenditure, at the Treasury Ministry; the scientific Council for the programming of electric energy (ENEL)

Liviana MATTONETTI has more than 14 years of experience in National Accounts as well as 4 years in social statistics gained at both Eurostat and at Istat. Currently she is a member of the Eurostat Laboratory for developments in cross cutting statistical domains where she is responsible for the project "Reconciliation of macro and micro data sources on households' economic resources" and acts as the co-secretariat of the joint OECD-Eurostat Expert Group on "Disparities in a National Accounts framework". At Eurostat she has also worked in the ESSPROS field. At Istat, she was in charge of Quarterly National Accounts for General Government in the National Accounts Directorate.

Marco MIRA D'ERCOLE is Head of the Division for Household Statistics and Progress Measurement in the Statistics Directorate at the OECD, and was previously the Counselor in the same Directorate. He has worked on measures of well-being, on income distribution and on various aspects of social policies He was editor of the 2010 edition of the OECD Factbook and of the 2005 and 2007 editions of Society at a Glance – OECD Social Indicators and was among the main contributors of the OECD report Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, 2008. He has been one of the “rapporteurs” of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress established by President Sarkozy in early 2008. Since joining the OECD he has worked in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, in the Economics Department and in the Private Office of the OECD Secretary General, as well as spending two years at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Modena and a M.Phil from Oxford University.

Guillaume MORDANT is the Deputy director of the Observation and Statistics Directorate of the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy since 2010, Guillaume Mordant has worked previously at the French National Statistical Institute Insee as head of unit in charge of International affairs, and previously as head of the Quarterly National Accounts division. His first positions in business statistics analysis and as head of the regional studies and dissemination division in La Reunion Regional office complete his experience and practice as a statistician and economist.

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Fabrice MURTIN is an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and a lecturer in international economic policy at Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po Paris). A French national, he completed his PhD at Paris and London Schools of Economics and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University prior to joining the OECD. His research has focused on the long-term dynamics of economic development and on labour market issues. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the European Commission, and has published several articles in academic journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Journal of Human Capital, Economica or the Journal of Development Studies.

Heinz-Herbert NOLL is head of the Social Indicators Research Centre of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim, Germany. He graduated in sociology, economics and statistics at the University of Frankfurt a.M. and has received his doctorate at the University of Mannheim. He has taught sociology at the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim and courses on social indicators and quality of life at various European universities. H.-H. Noll has published widely on topics related to social indicators, well-being and quality of life, social inequality and trends of social change in international comparison. He was President of the Research Committee “Social Indicators” of the International Sociological Association as well as of the “International Society for Quality of Life Studies”. He is currently a member of thee-Frame project.

Stephen PENNECK joined the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 1997 and became Director General in 2009. He has wide experience as a government statistician, initially in economic statistics, and more lately heading the Surveys and Administrative Sources directorate. Prior to becoming Director General, Stephen had responsibility for methodological advice to the ONS and the Government Statistical Service (GSS), including advice to the National Statistician on quality, standards, best practice, surveys, administrative sources, analysis and the Census.

As Director of Surveys and Administrative Sources, he had responsibility for all ONS surveys and for their outputs, including the Consumer Price Index, the Labour Force Survey, and business surveys feeding the National Accounts.

Previously, Stephen provided policy advice to the former National Statistician, Len Cook and, in 2002, he completed a five-month secondment to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Earlier jobs include heading the National Accounts division in ONS, and Chief Adviser on Statistics at the Department of Trade and Industry. Stephen has also worked on statistical research and at the Office of Fair Trading.

Stephen studied for his BSc in Economics and Statistics at Southampton University and has an MSocSc in Econometrics from Birmingham University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Chartered Statistician. Stephen is currently President Elect of the International Association of Official Statistics, and

has published articles in Economic Trends and Statistical News.

Wolfgang PETRITSCH, Ambassador of Austria to the OECD in Paris. Studied history, politics, int’l relations at Vienna University and USC Los Angeles. PhD in South Eastern European history 1972.

1977-1983 Press Secretary, Chief of Cabinet to Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky

1983-1992 Diplomatic posts in Paris (OECD) and New York.

1997/1998, Ambassador to the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 1998/99, EU Special Envoy for Kosovo and EU chief negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris. 1999 - 2002 International High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1999 - 2001 Chair of the Succession Commission for the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

From 2002 to 2008 Ambassador Petritsch represented his country at the UN, the Conference on Disarmament and WTO in Geneva; 2003 - 2005 Chair of the Mine Ban Treaty and President of the Nairobi Summit on a Mine Free World. 2004-2005 Chair of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

Mr. Petritsch is the Chair of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), Amsterdam; the Center for European Integration Strategies (CEIS), Geneva; the Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation (KIIC), Vienna; and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Vienna.

Mr. Petritsch is the recipient of the 2006 European Human Rights Award, Strasbourg.

Mario PIANTA is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Urbino and is a member of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy’s Academy of Sciences. He has been Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute; visiting fellow at the London School of Economics; visiting fellow at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has a Ph.D. from the LSE and was research fellow in 1986-87 at Columbia University, New York.

He has worked on economic growth, wellbeing, inequality and innovation; he has directed research projects for the European Commission and the JRC-IPTS Seville, and has participated in projects for the EU, the OECD, the ILO, UNRISD, the LSE, the Bank of Italy and the Italian Ministry of Research. He has published more than thirty articles in international journals and twenty-five chapters in edited books in English. His latest books are Global justice activism and policy reform in Europe (editor, with P. Utting and A. Elleskirk, Routledge, 2012) and Nove su dieci. Perché (quasi) tutti gli italiani stanno peggio di 10 anni fa (Laterza, 2012). http://works.bepress.com/mario_pianta

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Walter RADERMACHER is the Director General of Eurostat and Chief Statistician of the European Union. He has held various positions in the German Federal Statistical office including those of Vice-President, and President. He holds degrees in Business Economics from Aachen and Münster.

Joachim RECKTENWALD is Head of the 'Labour Market' Unit at Eurostat. Prior to that, he was Head of Unit in national accounts. Before joining the European Commission (Eurostat) he was a member of the scientific staff of the Council of Economic Experts in Germany.

Alessandra RIGHI is an Economic demographer, Senior Researcher working at Italian National Statistical Institute (Istat) in Rome. She is head of the Human Capital and Social Capital Accounting Project (Directorate of National Accounting).She has been responsible for different surveys like the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP) and before she has been charged for Vital statistics. She has developed researches in demographic and economic fields in different European and Italian institutions (Italian NCR, Italian National Council for Economics and Labour, IIASA).

Author of several publications in books, international/national journals and review on the economic and social consequences of demographic trend, on human capital and on social capital. She teaches Demography at the European University of Rome.

Tommaso RONDINELLA is a Researcher at Istat – Secretariat to the Presidency, he has a long experience in the measurement of wellbeing collaborating with both university and civil society organization. He is nominated by Istat as delegate in the Support Group within “BES” the Istat-CNEL initiative for the measurement of Equitable and Sustainable Well-being in Italy. He is part of Istat’s staff on e-Frame project.

Among his previous experiences, he worked for the Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, on the Barometer of effective quality of public services. From 2004 to 2010 he was policy officer at Lunaria, coordinating research activities of Sbilanciamoci! Campaign on Italian Budget Law. In 2006 he contributed to the current definition of the QUARS – Index of Regional Quality of Development. In 2010 he coordinated a national roundtable for a better use of indicators in Italian public policies (“Benessere e sostenibilità”). He has been Member of the Working Group for a Guide on “Involving citizens/communities in measuring and fostering wellbeing and progress” at OECD and Council of Europe.

He holds a degree in Statistical Sciences at University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and a master degree in “Globalization, development and cooperation” at University of Barcelona.

Ulla ROSENSTRÖM is a Senior Adviser at the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office. She currently leads a project for the development of well-being indicators for Finland as part of the work on the Government Foresight Report. She takes part in the monitoring of the implementation of the Government Programme and, as representative of the Prime Minister’s Office, steers the development and content of the national Findicator.fi service. She also runs the national indicator expert network. An expert in the development and presentation of sustainable development indicators, Dr Rosenström has conducted pioneering work on researching the use of sustainable development indicators. Before her current position, she worked for more than ten years for the Finnish Environment Institute. Besides being responsible for the national SDI programme, she has taken part in several international working groups in her field.

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Linda Laura SABBADINI (born in Rome) was appointed Department Director for Social and Environmental Statistics.

In Italy, before the definition of European and international standards and making a real information revolution, since 1990 she guides the radical renovation process in the area of social and gender statistics, planning and carrying out surveys of great social relevance about living conditions and quality of life. She starts the renewal of environmental statistics. Her highly innovative role at national and international level has been awarded by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, on 8 March 2006, which conferred her the honor of Commander of the Republic.

She was a member of several high level groups at the UN and at the European Commission in the area of social and gender statistics. Author of many scientific papers and monographs, for many years she was the expert of the National Commission For Parity and of the Commission on Poverty as well as several other important institutional committees.

Carlos SÁNCHEZ-MUÑOZ has been working on central banking statistics for 20 years, first at Banco de España and since 1999 at the European Central Bank (ECB). At present, Carlos is Deputy Head of the Statistics Development and Coordination Division at the ECB. He is leading the unit in charge of developing new euro area statistical projects, among which the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey.

Stefano SCARPETTA is Deputy Director in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD. He is also the Editor of the OECD Employment Outlook, an annual publication which looks at labour market developments and prospects in OECD member countries.

Mr. Scarpetta joined the OECD in 1991 and held several positions in the Economics Department and in his current Directorate. He led several large-scale research projects, including: "Implementing the OECD Jobs Strategy"; the "Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries"; and contributed to others including “The Policy Challenges of Population Ageing" and “The Effects of Product Market Competition on Productivity and Labour Market Outcomes”. From 2002 to 2006 he worked at the World Bank, where he took over the responsibility of labour market advisor and lead economist. In this capacity, he coordinated a Bank-wide research program of Employment and Development and contributed extensively to the Bank's investment climate assessments. He was also one of the leading authors of a number of flagship publications of the Bank, including the World Development Report on "A Better Investment Climate -- For Everyone" (September 2004), the book on "Enhancing Job Opportunities in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union" (November 2005) and the book on “Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean” (June 2009).

He has published extensively in academic journals and edited several books in the fields of: labour economics and industrial relations; economic growth; and industrial organisation. He is the Deputy Director of the programme of work on Employment and Development at the Institute for the Studies of Labour (IZA, Bonn, Germany); Research Fellow of IZA; Member of the Executive Board of the CAED (Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data) network and member of the Scientific Committee of the DARES (French Ministry of Labour).

Mr. Scarpetta holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS), Département et Laboratoire d’Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA) in Paris and a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Edward SCICLUNA is a Member of the European Parliament and the Vice Chairman on its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He is also the European Parliament sole representative on European Statistical Advisory Committee. Throughout his career he has held appointments as Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Malta, Chairman of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), Chairman of the Malta Council of Economic and Social Development (MCESD) and Electoral Commission in Malta. He has also acted as economic advisor to the IMF, UNESCO, Fitch, Standard & Poors, Moody's and served on the Council of Europe Development Bank Auditing Committee. Edward Scicluna graduated from the University of Oxford with a Diploma with distinction in politics and economics; from the University of Malta with a First Class Honours BA degree in Economics, and the University of Toronto with a Masters and Doctorate in Economics

Sjoerd SCHENAU started working at Statistics Netherlands in 2001 and started working on the Dutch environmental accounts in 2002. He is responsible as project manager for the compilation, publication and further development of the Dutch environmental accounts. He is a member of the London group and has been an active member of several Eurostat task forces. Recently, he has been working on the monitoring of Green Growth.

Hans SCHMEETS is a senior researcher and program manager of social cohesion, well-being and perceptions at Statistics Netherlands. He also is a professor in Social Statistics at Maastricht University in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His main interests are survey methodology, election studies, quality of life surveys, ethnic minorities, issues related to religion, well-being, trust, social and political participation. He also works with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As a statistical analyst, he has participated in over 60 OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Missions from 1995 onwards.

Paul SCHREYER is Deputy Chief Statistician at the OECD. His personal research areas include the measurement of capital and productivity, the measurement of non-market activities and price statistics. He is the author of several OECD Manuals and has published books and articles in international journals. In 2008-09, he was rapporteur in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. Since 2008, he has had a lead role in the OECD’s work on Green Growth Indicators.

Paul Schreyer joined the OECD in 1988. Before he was a research fellow at the IFO Institute for Economic Research in Munich Germany and an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Paul Schreyer studied at the Universities of Innsbruck and Birmingham (United Kingdom) and holds a Ph.D. in economics. He is of Austrian nationality.

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Charles SEAFORD is Head of the Centre for Well-being at the new economics foundation in London. The Centre’s work focuses both on new measures of progress and on the policy implications of adopting well-being as an objective. Recent work from the Centre includes the Happy Planet Index: 2012 Report (a global index of sustainable well-being), Well-being Evidence for Policy: a Review, Measuring our Progress (presenting a framework for doing this), The Practical Politics of Well-being, and Human Well-being and Priorities for Policymakers. Previously he worked at the UK Sustainable Development Commission and in management consultancy. He co-founded Prospect, a current affairs magazine, has a BA from Oxford University and an MSc in Business Studies from the London Business School.

Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Algirdas Gediminas ŠEMETA is a European Commissioner responsible for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud. He has previously held positions as the Minister of Finance of Lithuania and the Director; General of the Department of Statistics under the Government of Lithuania.

Stanley SIEBERT gained his BA from the University of Cape Town, and his PhD from the LSE. He focuses on “personnel economics”, that is, factors affecting business decisions on employing and incentivising workers (articles in the Academy of Management Journal and Management Science). Related research examines business responses to labour market regulation including maternity/paternity leaves, age discrimination, and employment protection laws in a context of centralised wage setting (various IZA Discussion Papers). He is also the author of two texts on labour economics The Market for Labor: An Analytical Treatment (with John Addison) and The Economics of Earnings (with Solomon Polachek), and a survey of European labour regulation Labour Markets in Europe: Issues of Harmonisation and Regulation (with John Addison).

Martin SIECKER started his professional career in the early seventies as a journalist for ‘de Volkskrant’, a nationwide progressive newspaper in the Netherlands. In 1981 he joined the union for industrial workers as editor of the union magazine. In 2002 he joined the EESC, since then he is a member of the Consultative Committee for Industrial Change, the INT section, the NAT section (also responsible for sustainable development) and he has been a member of the Sustainable Development Observatory from the start in 2004 till 2010 when he moved to the Internal Market Observatory. He has been reporter for the first own initiative EESC-opinion on sustainable and social reporting.

Marina SIGNORE is Research Director at Istat and Chief of Division “Metadata, Quality and R&D projects”. She is the Project Coordinator of the EC FP7 project e-Frame “European Framework for Measuring Progress” under whose coordination activities the current Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies” is organised. She is responsible for Istat scientific coordination of Blue-Ets research project also funded by the EC under FP7. She is responsible for Istat Quality Policy and has participated in high level international groups on Quality such as UN Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (2010 -2012); Eurostat Sponsorship on Quality (2009-2011); Eurostat LEG on Quality (1999-2001). She has been project leader of several Eurostat Grant Agreements also within the framework of the European Statistical Training Program. She have been elected Scientific Secretary of the IASS (International Association of Survey Statisticians) for the period 2003-2005.

Conal SMITH currently works for the OECD statistics directorate, leading work on the development of international guidelines on the measurement of subjective well-being. He previously managed the Social Conditions group in Statistics New Zealand, where he oversaw the release of the first New Zealand General Social Survey. Before this worked as a manager in the Strategic Social Policy Group in the Ministry of Social Development where he was responsible for the production of the Social Report.

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Jan-Pieter SMITS (1966) studied history at the Free University in Amsterdam and got his PhD in 1995 (‘Economic growth and structural change in the Dutch service sector). He was responsible for building a set of Historical National Accounts for the Netherlands, 1800-1921. For a couple of years he led a research group of economic historians and historians of technology in the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Dutch research school in economic and social history.

He was assistant professor at the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen until june 2011 and now works as programme manager and senior statistical researcher at the department of macro economic statistics and Statistics Netherlands. His research focuses on the inter-relationship between technological development, institutional change and economic growth. Most of this work is based on historical national accounts. He also co-ordinated the datahub on Historical National Accounting of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre.

Recently his research is focusing on issues which are “Beyond GDP”. At Statistics Netherlands he leads a large research programme on sustainable development. With dr. R. Hoekstra (StatNeth) he was responsible for the publication of the first Sustainability Monitor of the Netherlands. Presently he leads (with Hoekstra) the Taskforce for Measuring Sustainable Development, a group in which the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission and Eurostat participate.

Matthias TILL is presently heading the unit for Analysis and Projections in Statistics Austria’s Social Statistics Directorate. He has been working for about 14 years in statistics on poverty. His main fields of activity are the development of indicators and comparative and longitudinal analysis of European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU SILC). Matthias Till received his training as a sociologist at the University of Vienna and has a special interest in urban poverty dynamics, survey methodology, data integration and small area estimation.

Marcel TIMMER is professor of Economic Growth and Development at the University of Groningen and director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC). He participates in various international programs funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the European Commission in the areas of international comparisons of productivity, technological and structural change and economic growth. In the past years, he was co-leading three international research projects funded by the European Commission services involving large-scale consortia of research institutes worldwide. These include the EU KLEMS project, comparing patterns of growth in the European Union, Japan and the U.S. (2003-2008) and more recently the World Input-output Database (WIOD) project (2009-2012). The WIOD has developed new databases, accounting frameworks and models to increase our understanding of the socio-economic and environmental consequences of increasing global integration. He has been a consultant and advisor for various organisations including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry (METI) and Statistics Netherlands. He has been associate managing editor of the Review of Income and Wealth and extensively published in national and international journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Policy and the Journal of Economic History. He is the lead author of the book Economic Growth in Europe published by Cambridge University Press.

Jeroen VAN DEN BERGH is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, affiliated with the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology and the Faculty of Economics. In addition, he is professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at VU University Amsterdam. Previously, he was professor of Environmental Economics (1997-2007) and Professor of ´Nature, Water and Space´ (2002-2007) at VU University Amsterdam, and Member of the Energy Council of the Netherlands (2003-2007). His research is on the intersection of economics, environmental science and innovation studies. Work in recent years involves applications of behavioral and evolutionary economics and economic analysis of climate policy. He also published many articles on growth-versus-environment and the GDP paradox. He was awarded the Royal-Shell Prize 2002 and the IEC (Sant Jordi) Environmental Science Prize 2011. He is editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal "Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions".

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Gosse VAN DER VEEN, born in 1958, was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Director General of Statistics Netherlands on 1 January 2004. Gosse van der Veen graduated with honours from the State University of Groningen where he studied macro-economics.

Before joining Statistics Netherlands, he worked at the Ministry of Housing and Environment (1983-1989) as Head of the Financial Policy Department of Public Housing. Between 1989 and 1995 he was Head-director and Inspector of Public Housing in the Province of Friesland and later Inspector for the North of The Netherlands. In 1995 he was appointed Secretary General and Head of the public administration of the Province of Friesland.

Throughout his career Gosse van der Veen has managed major organisational changes and was responsible for (economic) policymaking. He managed and co-ordinated major projects on a national scale, e.g. housing asylum seekers, modernising the ICT environment for the provinces and a contract between Northern and Central Government about economic and social development.

In his present job he has chaired, the European board “Partnership Group” in which European Statistical Agenda is prepaired. Nowdays he is chair of the UNECE / HLG-BAS High level group on Business Architecture Statistics and Co-chair of the European Sponsorship Group on Standardisation.

Wim VAN NUNSPEET is currently director of socio-economic and spatial statistics at Statistics Netherlands in The Hague (Netherlands). He is a Dutch national and holds a degree in economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His previous positions at Statistics Netherlands include among others head of the department for National Accounts and deputy director of business statistics. He has recently been active in the European Statistical System Sponsorship Group on Measuring Progress, Well-Being and Sustainable Development and is currently a member of the joint OECD/Eurostat Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework.

Jan Luiten VAN ZANDEN is professor of global economic history at Utrecht University and Honorary Maddison professor at Groningen University. He has published widely about long term institutional and economic changes in the world economy, in particular concerning Western Europe and Indonesia. He also set up a large data infrastructural project, Clio Infra, which aims at bringing together large datasets on the various dimensions of the development of the world economy between 1500 and 2010. Linked to this is the Maddison project, which continues the work on historical measures of economic growth in the world started by Angus Maddison. He is currently working on incorporating new measures of economic welfare, including agency and gender inequality, into our measures of development.

Clare WARD is one of seven Deputy Government Statisticians at Statistics New Zealand. Clare leads the Industry and Labour Statistics Group, a role she has been in since January 2011. The Industry and Labour Statistics Group works across government to lead the sectors of official statistics that cover micro-economic statistics; the performance of New Zealand’s firms and sectors of the economy; and work, knowledge, and skills. Clare joined Statistics New Zealand in 2007 as the Deputy Government Statistician, Organisation Direction after roles at the Tertiary Education Commission, the Ministry of Housing, and Housing New Zealand. Originally from England, Clare has a background in strategy, policy, research, programme development, monitoring, and investment management in the public sector, both in New Zealand and in the UK. Clare lives in Wellington with her partner Graham and her children, Meg and Seth.

Kirsten WISMER is Director of Economic Statistics at Statistics Denmark since 2008. Before this she was Director of Social Statistics for 9 year. Through her career at Statistics Denmark she has mainly worked with labour market statistics and national accounts. She has a Master of Economics from the University of Copenhagen.

Oliver ZWIRNER is a Policy Officer, Indicators, statistics & beyond GDP in the Chief economist, Impact Assessment & Evaluation unit, DG Environment, European Commission. Economist and social scientist. Started his career with setting up environmental accounting and management systems in banks and insurance companies. Worked for some years in research as environmental economist and sociologist and project manager in the fields of water and biodiversity management. Joined the European Commission in 2005.