Albert Motivans is the Head of Data and Research for Equal Measures 2030, a civil society and private sector-led data and advocacy initiative. He develops innovative approaches to identify and visualise new and existing sources of development data and to strengthen the technical capacity of national advocates to use data to improve policies and development outcomes. He led the design and analysis of the most comprehensive global tool to measure the status of girls and women - the SDG Gender Index - which was launched in June 2019. Prior to joining Equal Measures 2030, he led education statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics where he oversaw the compilation of the global education database and efforts to communicate, visualise and analyse data. He has worked in the fields of data and development for the UNICEF Office of Research and the U.S. Census Bureau and has published widely on the use of data to inform policies in child welfare, education, and gender equality. He is a member of various global technical task forces, advisory groups and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

Alessandro Annoni is the Head of the Digital Economy Unit at the European Commission – Joint Research Centre. His unit provides techno-socio-economic research in support to Digital Transformation analysing, among others, data value chains and the conditions relating to their development. The Unit is also responsible for the European Observatory for Artificial Intelligence (AI Watch) and ensures the technical coordination of the INSPIRE Directive aiming at the development of the European Spatial Data Infrastructure.  Alessandro graduated in Physics from the University of Milan and before joining the EC in 1997, he worked for two decades in the private sector managing companies specialised in Remote Sensing, Geomatics, Software and Information Systems development.  Alessandro is member of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Program Board and has been awarded the 2013 Ian McHarg Medal of the European Geosciences Union reserved for distinguished research in Information Technology applied to Earth and space sciences. In 2016 he received the Digital Earth Science and Technology Contribution Award from the International Society for Digital Earth for outstanding contribution to advancing the development of Digital Earth.

Alex Simoes is a software developer with over 10 years of data visualisation and data management experience. He is a founding member of Datawheel [datawheel.us] and graduate of the MIT Media Lab, where he focused on creating data decision-making tools and using visual techniques to understand data. As part of his master's thesis, he developed The Observatory of Economic Development [oec.world], a public data platform used to visualize world trade flows with 50 years worth of data from more than 200 countries and 5,000 products. He has led the development of DataViva [legacy.dataviva.info], a collaborative planning tool for subnational governments in Brazil, Data USA [datausa.io], the largest and most comprehensive representation of U.S. data online and Trade Estonia [data.stat.ee], a recently launched trade data platform for Statistics Estonia.

Ana Rita Neves currently works at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre – Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards, where she has been part of the team developing the Composite Indicators & Scoreboards Explorer and the Asia-Europe Meeting sustainable connectivity index.

Prior to joining the European Commission, Ana worked for six years at Climate Alliance, an international network of cities dedicated to climate action.

At Climate Alliance, she was coordinating the development of the energy and climate reporting framework for over 7,000 cities engaged in the Covenant of Mayors initiative and involved in policy and advocacy activities linked to the international climate process.

She was also an external expert evaluator of Horizon 2020, the biggest European Union's research and innovation programme.

Ana has worked in research and international organisations for over 15 years at the intersection between science and policy.

She holds a Ph.D. in Sustainable Energy Systems from the MIT-Portugal Programme, a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning and a degree in Environmental Engineering.

Angel Hsu is a professor, researcher, writer and speaker who spends much of her time analyzing large datasets to develop policy solutions to the world's most pressing environmental problems, such as climate change and air pollution. As she writes: "I work between the push and pull of data science and public policy, and this passion drives me to explore how new technologies, analytical techniques and communication strategies can improve governance and lead to better environmental outcomes in rapidly developing countries like China." Hsu is jointly appointed at Yale-NUS in Singapore at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She founded and directed Data-Driven Yale, an international team of interdisciplinary researchers, scientists, programmers and visual designers. Under her direction, Data-Driven Yale works collaboratively with scholars and practitioners around the world to collect, transform and communicate information, creating new knowledge and policy tools designed to make the world greener and healthier. Her work has been published in scientific journals like Nature and Nature Climate Change and featured in media like The Economist and the New York Times.

Béatrice d’Hombres is a Senior Scientist at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) with more than ten years of experience in applied micro-econometrics. She is the coordinator of the JRC project on Fairness.

Béatrice has been working on issues related to education economics, health, social capital, and labour economics.

Her research has been published in international journals, including the European Economic Review, Tobacco Control, the Eastern Economic Journal, Health Economics, the BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy or Social Indicators Research.

Bogdan Atanasiu is an economic analyst at the European Commission DG Energy, Economic Analysis and Financial Instruments Unit. Since 2015 he worked on the elaboration of the Energy Union monitoring framework, coordinating the preparation of a relevant set of indicators and scoreboard presented in the State of the Energy Union Reports and through the online visualisation tool on DG Energy website. More recently, he contributed to the assessment of the draft National Energy and Climate Plans of the EU Member States and is currently involved in the preparation of the e-platform for future progress reports towards 2030 climate and energy objectives. He is also responsible for the statistical and data related activities acting as statistical and local data correspondent of DG Energy and being in charge with the production of the annual publications Energy Statistical Pocketbook and energy statistical datasheets. Bogdan is electrical engineer with a Ph.D. in renewable energy, having prior work experience of about eleven years in renewable energy research at the Romanian Research Institute for Electrical Engineering and of other eleven years on end-use energy efficiency at the JRC's Institute for Energy and Transport – Renewable Energy Unit, Institute for European Environmental Policy and Buildings Performance Institute Europe.

Carlo Lavalle (PhD) has over 25 years of experience in modelling and data analysis for policy applications. Since 1990, he is with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He is involved in scientific policy support in the field of urban and regional development. Carlo coordinates the development of the LUISA Territorial Modelling Platform and of the European Commission Knowledge Centre for Territorial Policies.

Carlos Carrasco is a researcher at IESE Business School and Partner – Chief Data Scientist at EIXOS Economic Observatory. His work focuses on the intersection between data (Data Science, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning) and decision-making in cities and organizations. He has published different academic publications and has participated in books on economics, management, and urban strategy. He is also a lecturer at various business schools, where he teaches Data Science courses. He has studied at Pompeu Fabra University, the Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Harvard University.

Carlos Moura currently works at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre – Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards, where he has been part of the team developing sevreal visualization platforms as the Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor, the Social Scoreboard and the ASEM Sustainable Connectivity Portal.

Prior to joining the European Commission, Carlos worked in the portuguese fisheries administration.

At the fisheries administration he was responsible for managing the portuguese statistical system relating to fisheries. He develop several visual tools for controlling the fisheries and the portuguese quotas and automated the data collection procedures.

Dániel Vértesy is a Research Fellow at the Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. He coordinates econometric and applied statistical research projects focusing on the measurement of scientific and technological research and innovation performance, internationalization of research and development, and the impact of technological change (i.e., diffusion of artificial intelligence) on employment and growth in support of EU policies. Prior to joining the European Commission, he worked at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) investigating sectoral innovation system dynamics in aerospace industries. He holds a PhD in Innovation Studies and Development from Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, and a PhD in Economics and Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Corvinus University of Budapest. His publications and research interest covers the economics of science, technology and innovation, indictors for policy, aerospace industry and global transformations.

Doris Mpoumou is the current Director and AU Representative of Save the Children African Union Liaison and Pan Africa Office, based in Addis Ababa.  Doris is a human rights and social justice advocate with over 20 years of experience in high level advocacy, policy analysis, and coalition building on issues as diverse as peace and security, violence against women and girls including child marriage, global governance, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. In her native Congo-Brazzaville, Doris initiated a reform of the penal Code to include gender based violence crimes. Before joining Save the Children, Doris served in various leadership positions including at the International Planned Parenthood Western Hemisphere Region in New York where among other priorities she advocated for strong gender, child and human rights perspectives in the negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals. Doris also served as the first Director of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect civilians against war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prior to this position, Doris co-led advocacy efforts that led to the creation of UN Women.

Eleni Papadimitriou works at the Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.

She is part of the team developing the Regional Gender Equality monitor, a monitoring tool of female disadvantage and achievement at regional EU level.

Her other work interests include sustainable development, indicator frameworks and composite indicators.

Prior to joining COIN, Eleni worked in the Climate Risk Management Unit of the JRC developing an index for climate resilient development and studying sustainable development indicators.

Before that, in the Global Security and Crisis Management Unit, where she assisted the research on anti-fraud techniques in customs data.

Her previous work experience includes also the private sector where she has a long-term experience as statistician and market research analyst.

Eleni has studied Mathematics in the National Kapodestrian University of Athens and Statistics in the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Fábio Duarte is a research scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, where he leads projects including Roboat (a fleet of autonomous boats for Amsterdam) and Underworlds (using robots to monitor public health through the sewage system). Fábio is also responsible for the data visualization team at MIT Senseable City Lab, and his research work has been published in Science Robotics and IEEE Internet of Things, and exhibited at Cooper Hewitt, in New York, and Science Museum London.

Francesco Panella currently works at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, supporting research and activities in the context of cultural and creative cities.

He holds an MA in Culture, Policy and Management from City University in London and a BA in Disciplines of the Arts, Music and Entertainment from Università di Bologna.

Giacomo Damioli is a research fellow at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. His professional career combines experiences in the academia, the private and the public sectors.

He has longstanding experience at performing research projects and providing consultancy services in multiple domains including innovation, economic development, labour, vocational training, poverty and inequality.

His present work focuses on the globalization of innovative investments, technological development, business performance and dynamics, as well as the consequences of these phenomena on local development.

Giacomo holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex and is a graduate from Bocconi University in Milan.

Giorgia Boldrini, cultural and creative industries expert, has designed and coordinated since 2010 the 'Incredibol!' project, an innovative and integrated support scheme for the creative sector in Emilia-Romagna Region, lead by the City of Bologna, Italy. Her main research interests are creating links between traditional knowledge, cultural heritage, cultural activities and creative industries through an integrated and cross-sectoral approach. She has been involved as expert and speaker in many international projects and initiatives.

Giulio Caperna is a researcher and statistician at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. Before joining COIN, Giulio worked at the University of Padua as Post-Doc researcher where he taught statistics and construction of composite indicators.

Before taking his PhD in Statistical Science at the University of Padua, he worked as data-manager and data-analyst in a medical department in Rome. Giulio studied Statistical Science and Demography at the “Sapienza” University of Rome.

His main research interests include the methodology of composite indicators, as well as its use for the description of complex concepts such as civic participation and well-being.

Guillaume Lafortune is the SDG Index Manager at Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). Previously, he served as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) working on public governance reforms and statistics. He was one of the lead advisors for the production of the 2015 and 2017 flagship statistical report Government at a Glance. He also contributed to analytical work related to public sector efficiency, open government data and citizens’ satisfaction with public services. Earlier, Guillaume worked as an economist at the Ministry of Economic Development in the Government of Quebec (Canada). Guillaume holds a M.Sc in public administration from the National School of Public Administration (ENAP) in Montreal and a B.Sc in international economics from the University of Montreal.

Harsh Vijay Singh is the Project Lead at the System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Energy at the World Economic Forum. Harsh has a strong interest in the energy sector, with more than seven years of experience in diverse roles. He worked on key initiatives on improving access to electricity in off-grid areas and conducted research for energy efficiency policy design in India. More recently, he led strategic marketing activities for GE's Water business in India, with responsibility for market development in new areas like energy neutral wastewater treatment and urban water-energy nexus. He also has keen interest in development economics, and has worked on development research projects at organizations like World Bank and Poverty Action Lab. He earned his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, and masters in Public Administration concentrating on energy policy from Columbia University.

Jan Burck is senior advisor for low-carbon strategies and energy and project leader for climate indices at the NGO and Think Tank Germanwatch. He has developed the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) in 2005 and presented the CCPI since then every year at the UN Climate Summits. He was for six years team leader of the German and EU climate policy at Germanwatch and is responsible for different studies at Germanwatch. He is co-author of the Brown to Green Report and the Allianz Climate and Energy Monitor. Jan likes to be with his family, hiking and mountain biking. Jan studied Geography, Political Science, Ethnology and Chemistry at the Universities of Bonn and Mainz.

John Dagevos has studied regional and macroeconomics at Tilburg University, where he graduated cum laude in 1984. Since 2003 he works at Telos, first as senior researcher, later as managing director. From 2015 he is the director of Telos. Telos is the leading organisation in the Netherlands on monitoring sustainable development at local and regional levels. John has a very broad experience as a manager, professor, researcher, speaker, consultant and board member of different types of organisations. He is experienced in the field of sustainable development, local and regional socio-economic development, policy evaluation research (efficiency and effectiveness of different kind of policies) and especially in developing monitoring instruments. He worked on numerous assignments in the Netherlands and abroad. Besides working at Telos/Tilburg University he is also working as an adjunct professor sustainable community development at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Canada and at Memorial University Newfoundland Canada.

Lewis Dijkstra is the Head of the Economic Analysis Sector of the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy in the European Commission. He is the editor the Cohesion Reports, which analyse economic, social and environmental issues in EU regions and cities. His latest work and publications cover topics such as regional quality of government, urban economic development, regional economic and demographic projections and the definition of cities. He works closely with the OECD, the World Bank, the European Environmental Agency, the Joint Research Centre and Eurostat. With these partners, he has launched projects on regional competitiveness, business demography, regional well-being, transport and demography among others. He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from Rutgers University, New Jersey, a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Political Science from the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Marcos Domínguez-Torreiro is a senior researcher at the “Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards” of the European Commission.

He is specialised in policy oriented research, drawing heavily on applied statistics and econometrics. After his undergraduate studies in Economics and Business Administration, he completed his doctoral thesis in Applied Economics at the University of Vigo, Spain.

His career spans academia, private sector and government. He has contributed to several books, book chapters, academic journal articles and science for policy reports in the fields of composite indicators, environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics and finance.

Maria Del Sorbo is a scientific officer currently working for the European Commission's Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre in Italy.

She is an economist with more than 14 years of expertise producing evidence for policy making for the European Commission, universities, top think tanks and private sector. She contributes to baseline and empirical studies of worldwide cutting-edge economic and innovation issues. Her research interests include applied economics, innovation, skills and their measurements at micro and macro level, and indicators frameworks.

With a background in economics, she obtained her PhD in Engineering and Economics of Innovation with focus on skills mismatch and regional development, while being visiting research fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, SPRU, of the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

In addition, she obtained two Master degrees: Technology of Innovation Management at the SPRU, UK, and Euro-planning for local development at the Scientific and Technological Park of Salerno, Italy.

She has contributed to book chapters, scientific articles and science for policy reports in the fields of economics of innovation and skills mismatch.

Marine Siva is a Policy Officer at the Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) of the European Committee of Regions (CoR) in Brussels. She specialises in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensuring the follow-up of the CoR opinion "SDGs: a basis for a long-term EU strategy for a sustainable Europe by 2030".  She contributes to raising awareness through events and stakeholders involvement, and regularly provides technical expertise on this topic to CoR members and hierarchy. She also actively works on the monitoring of the SDG implementation process at regional and local level. Prior to ECON, Ms Siva promoted development cooperation with third countries at the CoR, coordinating the NICOSIA initiative with Libyan municipalities, and co-organising with DG DEVCO a major event on decentralised cooperation with mayors from developing countries.  She has gained extensive experience in EU external affairs from working at the French Permanent Representation to the EU, as well as at the Brussels office of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region. She holds degrees in European Affairs and EU International Relations from King's College London and the College of Europe.

Michaela Saisana is Head of the Monitoring, Indicators and Impact Evaluation Unit and she also leads the European Commission's Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN) at the Joint Research Centre in Italy.

She has been working in the JRC since 1998, where she obtained a prize as “best young scientist of the year” in 2004 and together with her team the “JRC policy impact award” for the Social Scoreboard of the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2018.

Scientist and engineer with specialization on process optimization and spatial statistics, she is actively involved in promoting a sound development and responsible use of performance monitoring tools.These monitoring tools feed into EU policy formulation and legislation in a wide range of fields from social rights and fairness to innovation and competitiveness, from enterprises and firms to state aid, from employment to culture and creativity, from cohesion to sustainable development.

She collaborates, by auditing performance indices, with over 150 international organizations and world-class universities, including the United Nations, Transparency International, Oxfam, the World Economic Forum, INSEAD, the World Intellectual Property Organization, Yale University, Columbia University, and Harvard University.

Michaela graduated in 1998 from the National Technical University of Athens with a degree in Chemical Engineering (receiving the Technical Chamber of Greece Award in Chemical Engineering) and went on to complete her PhD in Chemical Engineering with focus on air quality and spatial statistics.
She is the author of ~ 30 articles in academic journals, 100 working papers, and co-author of two books: 2008 OECD/JRC Handbook on Composite Indicators and 2008 Global Sensitivity Analysis-The Primer (Wiley). Reviewer for top journals including Nature Communications.

Negussie Dejene is presently working as senior technical officer with the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), which is a pan-African policy and advocacy center on child rights.  Current key responsibilities include: undertake and contributes to the design and implementation of child related researches that meet rigorous academic and ethical standards; documenting and synthesizing research findings and presenting these through high-quality reports; publish research findings; contribute to the development of high quality programmes; keep abreast of new and emerging research techniques and best practices; contribute to the  development of relevant policies; develop sound monitoring frameworks and survey/assessment methodologies. Before joining ACPF, he worked with the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia for more than 15 years and has extensive experience in planning, designing, testing and execution of socio-economic surveys, data analysis and report writing. He authored and co-authored various research papers such as: The African report on child wellbeing 2018: progress in the child-friendliness of African governments; Child-Friendliness Index (CFI): revisited, 2018; The African report on child wellbeing 2016: bridging the gap between policy and practice; and a range of statistical and analytical reports at the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia. Negussie has a Bachelor and a Master’s degree in statistics.

Pablo de Pedraza (PhD in Applied Economics) works for the Unit I.1 - Monitoring, Indicators and Impact Evaluation at the Joint Research Centre. He works on indexes related with Small Business Act implementation and conducts research on Modelling the data economy, the macro-matching process in the labor market, life satisfaction, job insecurity and post adjustment techniques of web data.

He worked at the Applied Economics Department of the University of Salamanca and was Marie Curie fellow at the University of Amsterdam. He coordinated Webdatanet (EU Cost Action webdatanet.usal.es), a network that brought together web data experts from a variety of disciplines aiming to address methodological issues of web-based data collection. Since 2005 he is a member of the Wage Indicator foundation (http://www.wageindicator.org/main).

Pierre de Boisséson is a Junior Economist in the Gender unit of the OECD’s Development Centre, studying how discriminatory social norms are perpetuating gender inequalities and exploring women’s empowerment opportunities through the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). Prior to joining the OECD, Pierre worked for three years at the World Bank in the US, Mexico, and various African countries. As part of the Poverty Department, he developed econometric models and multidimensional poverty indices. He holds a Master’s degree from ESCP Europe in Paris, and a Master’s degree in International Development from the School of Foreign Service (MSFS) of Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Ray Perrault is Distinguished Computer Scientist in SRI International’s Artificial Intelligence Center, of which he was Director for 30 years. His main research interests are in natural language processing and speech act theory. He was co-Principal Investigator of the CALO Project, a large, multi-institutional, DARPA-funded project whose objective was to build an intelligent office assistant that learns through interaction with its user and the world. Several technologies developed on that project, including Siri, have been transitioned to commercial and military applications. He is a Fellow of AAAI and AAAS, has been President of IJCAI and ACL, co-Editor-in-Chief of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, and received the IJCAI Donald E Walker Distinguished Service Award.  He is a member of the Steering Committee of the AI Index Project, part of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Intelligence. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan.

Shamnaaz B. Sufrauj is an international consultant at the African Trade & Policy Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa where she works on regional integration in Africa and is improving the methodology of the Africa regional integration index; she also leads on the African continental free trade area (AfCFTA) national strategies for small island states. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Trento, an MBA from the Université de Poitiers and a bachelor’s in economics from Bangalore University. She held teaching and research positions at the University of Trento and the Cà Foscari University Venice among others. She is well-versed in the fields of international trade, small island economies, labour and regional economics, and uses econometric tools as well as specialist tools such as network analysis among others. She has practical work experience as a business consultant supporting SMEs development and as a training and development coordinator managing nation-wide projects in agriculture and tourism. She is fluent in English, French and Italian.

Simon Mevel is currently working as an Economic Affairs Officer for the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Prior to joining the UN in 2011, he had been working successively for the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Bank. He has over 15 years of experience in assessment of trade and environmental reforms with a focus on development issues, and more than 40 publications to date. He has developed and conducted a number of capacity building programmes, particularly on trade policy analysis, in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He also managed development assistance programmes for African countries.

Valentina Montalto has ten years of professional experience, combing work in the private sector as researcher and project manager, and in the public sector as policy analyst, with a focus on the potential of culture for economic and social well-being.

Her research interests lay in a) conceptualising the role culture in an economy that is increasingly driven by knowledge and ideas; b) developing metrics to capture the economic and social value of culture; c) advising policies at all levels – local, national, European – that can help make the most of culture to empower citizens and foster new economies.

Valentina currently works at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, where she is in charge of the development of the ‘Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor’ project. She previously worked at the Brussels-based research and advisory company KEA where she co-authored around 15 policy-oriented reports assessing the potential of culture for local and regional development and evaluating the relevance and accuracy of available cultural statistics, on behalf of both European institutions and city authorities.

On YouTube her TEDxTalk on how to measure the value of culture in European cities.

Valentina Alberti is a researcher at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC). Currently she is dealing with culture and creativity in European cities, and her research interests includes mainly regional development and urban renewal.

Valentina hold a PhD in Regional and Urban Planning and a Master degree in Architecture at Sapienza, University of Rome.

Passionate for visual communication, she explores communication techniques to simplify complex topics for non-experts.

Independent consultant, former Researcher at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre

William Becker is an accomplished data scientist with extensive experience in international policy making. Originally from a technical background, he received a PhD in mechanical engineering, statistics and machine learning from the University of Sheffield in 2011.

For the last nine years he has worked at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, supporting high-level international policy making with innovative data and policy analysis; and developing composite indicators and scoreboards for monitoring global trends.

In parallel, he has built a strong cross-disciplinary academic track record, with a wide range of high-impact publications, and keynote speeches in international conferences.

Applications of his work include sustainable development, international connectivity, policy/performance monitoring and impact assessment, environmental science, engineering and economics.

Yannick Vuylsteke is the Head of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation where he is responsible for the development, improvement, production and delivery of the bi-annual IIAG. Yannick co-manages the Foundation’s research team, contributing to the Foundation’s other research projects, and also maintains oversight of the Foundation’s work with partners on data projects to increase coverage and improve quality of African governance data. Previously Yannick worked at Transparency International on the Business Integrity Programme, carrying out in-house research and working on indices measuring transparency, corruption and governance issues in the private sector, and the development and improvement of indicators measuring corporate transparency and reporting. He has also worked at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI). Yannick obtained his BA from the University of Leeds and holds an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.