List of Speakers / liste des intervenants

 

A

  • Ahmed Aboutaleb, State Secretary for Social Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, The Netherlands
  • Carmen Alcaide Guindo, President, National Statistical Institute, Spain
  • Dr. Odeh Rashed Al-Jayyousi, Regional Director of the West/Central Asia and North Africa, IUCN WESCANA
  • Roger Allen, Chairman, Allen & Buckeridge, Australia
  • Joaquín Almunia, Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Commission
  • Savas Alpay, General Director Statistical Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries, OIC, Turkey
  • Emilio Álvarez Icaza, Chairman, Commission for Human Rights of Mexico City, Mexico
  • Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, USA
  • Cathryn Ashley-Jones, Deputy Government Statistician, Social and Population Statistics, Statistics New Zealand

B

  • Ali Babacan, Minister of State in Charge of the Economy and Chief Negotiator for European Union Affairs, Turkey
  • Shaida Badiee, Director of Development Data Group, World Bank
  • Fernando Ballestero, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of Spain to the OECD, OECD
  • Gary Banks, Chairman, Productivity Commission, Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision, Australia
  • Luca Barbone, Director, Poverty Reduction Group, World Bank
  • Fabrizio Barca, General Director at Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy
  • Luigi Biggeri, President of the Italian National Statistical Institute, ISTAT, Italy 
  • Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency, IEA
  • Adam Bly, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Seed Media Group
  • Joan Boer, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of the Netherlands to the OECD
  • Peter Bosch, Deputy Head of the IPCC WG3 Technical Support Unit
  • Ann-Kristin Boström, Director of Education, Swedish National Agency for School Improvement
  • François Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank
  • Paul Brest, President, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, USA  
  • Simon Briscoe, Statistics Editor, Financial Times, UK
  • Maarten Brouwer, Effectiveness and Quality Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
  • Susan Brutschy, President, Applied Survey Research, USA 
  • Stephen Bubb, CEO, Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations,ACEVO, UK 

C

  • Marcel Canoy, Economic Adviser, European Commission
  • João Paulo Ribeiro Capobianco, Executive Secretary, Brazilian Ministry of Environment
  • Siobhan Carey, Chief Statistician, Department for International Development, UK  
  • Margaret Chan, Director General, World Health Organization, WHO
  • Shailaja Chandra, Executive Director, National Population Stabilisation Fund, India 
  • Jonathan Charles, Former Foreign Correspondent for the BBC
  • Jean-Michel Charpin, Director General of the French National Statistical Institute, INSEE
  • Paul Cheung, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division, UNSD
  • Len Cook, Research Associate, Waikato University and Former Director of the ONS, UK and Statistics New Zealand
  • Clayton Cosgrove, Minister of Statistics, New Zealand
  • Jean-Philippe Cotis, Chief Economist, OECD
  • Anthony Courakis, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of Greece to the OECD
  • Richard T. Curtin, Professor and Director, Surveys of Consumers, University of Michigan, USA

D

  • Tim Davis, Head, Entrepreneurship Indicators Project, OECD
  • Ömer Demír, President of the Turkish Statistical Institute, TURKSTAT, Turkey 
  • Kemal Derviş, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP
  • Ömer Dinçer, Former Undersecretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, Turkey
  • Ali Dogramaci, Rector, Bilkent University, Turkey
  • Paul Dolan, Professor of Economics at Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, UK 
  • Dong Dasheng, Deputy Auditor General, National Audit of China 
  • Nick Donofrio, Executive Vice-President, Innovation and Technology, IBM
  • Amir Dossal, Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships, UNFIP
  • Bill Drayton, Founder of Ashoka (a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs), USA 
  • John Dryden, Deputy Director Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI), OECD
  • Karen Dunnell, Chief Executive, Office for National Statistics, UK

E

  • Randall Eberts, Executive Director, W.E. Upjohn Institute, USA
  • Robert Edwards, Director, Statistics Department, IMF
  • Asad Elahi, Secretary, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan
  • Noha El-Mikawy, International Adviser on Poverty and Governance, UNDP, Oslo Governance Center
  • Ronnette Engela, Executive Policy Analyst, Office of the President, South Africa 
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
  • Peter Ester, Director of OSA and Professor of Sociology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
  • Pieter Everaers, Director, Eurostat, European Commission 

F

  • Antonio Fanelli, Deputy Head - Investment Compact for South East Europe, OECD
  • Frank Farrow, Director of Community Change Initiatives, Casey Foundation, USA
  • Ridha Ferchiou, President, National Council on Statistics, Tunisia
  • Hakan Fidan, President, Turkish International Co-operation and Development Agency (TIKA)
  • Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine, USA
  • Julio Frenk, Senior Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 
  • Hing Wang Fung, Commissioner for Census and Statistics of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

G

  • John Gage, Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA

  • Alessandra Galloni, Chief, The Wall Street Journal, Paris

  • Ali Gamatie, Vice Governor, Central Bank of Western African States (BCEAO)

  • Nina Gardner, Director, Strategy International, Italy  
  • Tony German, Co-founders, Development Initiatives, UK 
  • Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician, OECD 
  • Cynthia A. Glassman, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce, USA
  • Arturo González de Aragón, Superior Auditor of Mexico
  • José Manuel González-Páramo, Executive Board Member, European Central Bank
  • Joe Grice, Executive Director, Social and Public Services Analyses and Reporting, Office for National Statistics, UK 
  • Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland 
  • Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD 
  • Orhan Güvenen, Chair, Accounting Information Systems, Bilkent University, Turkey

H

  • Frank Hagemann, Senior Policy Analyst and SIMPOC Coordinator, International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour, ILO
  • Alan Hall, Coordinator, Global Initiatives, Global Water Partnership, Sweden
  • Jon Hall, Manager, OECD World Forum Project Leader, OECD, France
  • Brian Hammond, Acting Deputy Director, Development Cooperation Directorate, Acting Deputy Director, OECD
  • Henning Hansen, Co-ordinator, International Federation of Environmental Health
  • Sean Healy, Justice and Peace Commissioner, CORI, Ireland
  • Gordon R. Hein, Vice President for Programs, The Asia Foundation, US
  • Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, OXFAM International, UK
  • Chris Hoenig, Vice-President of Strategy, IBM
  • Anders Hoffman, Creative Director of the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, FORA
  • Paul Hofheinz, President, Lisbon Council 
  • Alton Hollett, Director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Statistics Agency, Newfoundland 
  • Roefie Hueting, formerly with Statistics Netherlands

I

  • Lelio Iapadre, Associate Research Fellow, Comparative Regional Integration Studies, UN University
  • Veronique Ingram, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the OECD, OECD

 

J

  • Donald J. Johnston, Lawyer, Professor, Chair of IRGC, and Former Secretary - General of the OECD

 

K

  • Charlotte Kahn, Director, Boston Indicators Project, The Boston Foundation, USA
  • Androulla Kaminara, Director, EuropeAid, European Commission
  • Louka Katseli, Director, Development Center, OECD
  • Mary-Louise Kearney, Director of the Secretariat of the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge
  • Steve Killelea, Founder Global Peace Index, Global Buisnessman and Philanthropist
  • Dae You Kim, Commissioner, Korean National Statistics Office, KNSO, Korea 
  • Ben Kiregyera, Chairman, Board of Directors, Uganda Bureau of Statistics
  • Stephen Knack, Lead Economist, Development Research/Public Sector Governance, The World Bank 
  • Emmanuel Kontopirakis, Secretary General, National Statistical Service, Greece
  • Irina Krizman, Director General, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovania
  • Alan Krueger, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, USA 
  • Meltem Kurtsan, Head of the Women Entrepreneurs Association (KAGIDER), Turkey 
  • Tae-Shin Kwon, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of Korea to the OECD 

L

  • Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, High Commissioner of Planning, Morocco  
  • Richard Layard, Director, Well-being Programme, Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, UK
  • Pali Lehohla, Statistician General, Director, Statistics South Africa
  • Denise Lievesley, Chief Executive of the English Information Centre for Health and Social Care
  • Jonathan Loh, Honorary Research Associate, Institute of Zoology, United Kingdom

  • Francisco Lopez-Bermudez, Director, Andean Democratic Audit

  • Lorents Lorentsen, Director, Environment Directorate, OECD 
  • Charles Leyeka Lufumpa, Director, African Development Bank, Tunisia

M

  • Daniel Macadar, Social Watch, Uruguay
  • Turgay Maleri, Chair of Executive Committee, GATE Elektronic, Turkey
  • Marco Malgarini, Senior Economist, Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses, ISAE, Italy
  • Bronwen Mamby, Senior Programme Adviser, Afrimap, Open Society Institute, UK 
  • Robert Manchin, Chairperson and Managing Director, The Gallup Organisation - Europe
  • Richard Manning, Chair of the Development Assistance Committee, OECD
  • John Martin, Director of the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate, OECD 
  • Empar Martínez, General Director, University Teaching Cooperative “Florida”, Spain 
  • Douglas May, Economics Professor at the Memorial University, Newfoundland
  • Nicolas Meunier, Chief Economist for Emerging Markets, Crédit Agricole, France
  • Paul Meyer, Chairman and President, VOXIVA, USA 
  • Alex Michalos, Director of the Institute for Social Research and Evaluation, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
  • Wonki Min, Director general of National Information Society Agency, NIA, Korea 
  • Alexandra Mitsotaki, ActionAid International
  • Bedrich Moldan,  Senator of the Parlament, The Czech Republic
  • Geoff Mulgan, Director, The Young Foundation, UK
  • Christoph Müller, Director, Federal Chancellery, Austria
  • Louis Munyakazi, Director General, National Statistical Institute, Rwanda
  • Rainer Münz, Head of Research and Development, Erste Bank

N

  • Joachim Nahem, UNDP Governance Center
  • Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General and CEO, CIVICUS, South Africa
  • Nicole Notat, Founder and President, Vigeo, France

  • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Doctor, Brookings Institution, USA
  • Josef Olenski, President, Central Statistical Office, Poland
  • Charles Oman, Senior Economist, Development Center, OECD
  • İlber Ortayli, Director,Topkapi Sarayı, Turkey 
  • Kadri Ozen, Coca Cola Eurasia, Public Affairs & Communications Manager

P

  • Ekrem Pakdemirli, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
  • Ron Palmeri, Managing Director, Minor Ventures, USA
  • Antonis Papacostas, Head of Unit "Public Opinion and Media Monitoring", DG Communication, European Commission
  • José Pavão Nunes, Head of Statistics and Information Control Department, ISP
  • Luiz Pereira Da Silva, Chief Economist of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, Brazil
  • Mario Pezzini, Deputy Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
  • Alberto Pfeifer, Executive Director, Latin American Business Council, CEAL
  • Laszlo Pinter, Director, Measurement and Assessment Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada & Henning Hansen, Co-ordinator, International Federation of Environmental Health
  • Alexander Piskunov, Member of the board, Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation
  • Theodore Porter, Professor, Department of History, UCLA, USA
  • Ken Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University, USA
  • Alessandro Profumo, CEO, Unicredit Group
  • Nicolas Charles Pron, Devinfo Global Administrator, Sr. Prog. Officer, UNICEF

R

  • Walter Radermacher, President, Federal Statistical Office, Germany
  • Thierry Raes, Partner, Global Leadership Team, PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Edi Rama, Mayor, Tirana, Albania
  • Mamphela Ramphele, Co-chair, Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM)
  • Judith Randel, Development Initiatives, United Kingdom
  • Jan Rath, Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • Roy Romanow, Former Premier of Saskatchewan and Founding Chair, Canadian Index of Wellbeing Network
  • Hans Rosling, Co-founder, Gapminder Foundation, Sweden
  • Jesse Robins, Adviser to Swivel.com and Member of Reilly Radar
  • Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, Mayor of Madrid, Spain

S

  • Lester Salamon, Director, Center for Civil Society Studies, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Ali Akbar Salehi, Assistant Secretary General, Organisation of the Islamic Conference
  • Odile Sallard, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
  • Jean-Marc Salou, Administrator, Pensions and Insurance Statistics, OECD, France    
  • Andrea Saltelli, Unit Head, Econometrics and statistical support to Antifraud, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
  • Mike Salvaris, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University, Australia
  • Francisco Santos Calderon, Vice President, Colombia
  • Hussein Sayed, Professor and Consultant, The Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center & Cairo University
  • Fabio Scacciavillani, Acting Director, Economic Analysis and Industrial Research Department, Gulf Organisation for Industrial Consulting, Qatar 
  • Andreas Schleicher, Head of Indicators and Analysis Division, Education Directorate, OECD
  • Paul Schnabel, Director Social and Cultural Planning Office, The Netherlands
  • Tom Schuller, Head of Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, OECD
  • Abdüllatif Şener, Deputy Prime Minister, Turkey
  • Paolo Sestito, Director, Research Department, Bank of Italy
  • Luay Shabaneh, President, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 
  • Andreas Siegel, Director for Strategic Planning, Council of Europe (Strasbourg)
  • Jussi Simpura, Director of Division, Welfare, Stakes (National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health), Finland
  • Rob Smith, Director of Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, Statistics Canada
  • Luc Soete, joint Director of the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) and the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)
  • Fiona Stanley, Founding Director, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Australia 
  • David Stanners, Program Manager, Strategic Knowledge and Innovation, European Environment Agency
  • Sally Stansfield, Health Metrics Network Executive Secretary, Worl Health Organization
  • Karin Stoltenberg, Former Director General, Ministry for Family and Gender Equality, Norway
  • Raul Suarez de Miguel, General Coordinator of the Metagora Project, OECD
  • Jean-Robert Suesser, Director ADETEF, France

 

T

  • Lyonpo Jigmi Y Thinley, Minister of Home and Cultural Affairs, Bhutan
  • Arland Thornton, Professor, University of Michigan, USA
  • Ahmet Tıktık, Undersecretary, State Planning Organisation, Turkey
  • Kadir Topbas, Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey
  • Dennis Trewin, former Australian Chief Statistician
  • Michel Tubiana, Vice-President, International Federation of Human Rights, France

 

U

  • Luis Carlos Ugalde, President of Electoral Federal Institute, Mexico

 

V

  • Michel Van den Abeele, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of the European Commission to the OECD
  • Hendrik van der Pol, Director, UNESCO Institute of Statistics  
  • Ruut Veenhoven, Professor - Doctor, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, Netherlands
  • Ann Venemann, Executive Director, UNICEF
  • Jérôme Vignon, Director for Social Protection and Integration, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, EC
  • Romulo Virola, Secretary-General, National Statistical Coordination Board, Philippines 
  • Vamik Volkan, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia, USA

W

  • Gert Wagner, Professor, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Germany
  • Darren Walker, Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation, USA 
  • David M. Walker, Comptroller General, USA 
  • Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, US Office of Management and Budget
  • Frank Wiebe, Managing Director, Economic Analysis, Millennium Challenge Corporation, US  
  • Matthew Winkler, Founder and Editor in Chief, Bloomberg News, USA 
  • John Wiseman, Director, The McCaughey Centre,VicHealth Centre for the Promotion of Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne
  • Michael Wolfson, Statistics Canada
  • Sara E.Wood, Chief Data Officer, Swivel, USA 

Y

  • Durmus Yilmaz, Governor, Central Bank, Turkey
  • Yasuto Yoshizoe, President, Statistics Council, Japan

 

Z

  • Stephen Zubrick, Head of Population Science, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Australia
  • Alix Peterson Zwane, Evaluation Manager, Google.org

 

 

 

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Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD

"Measuring whether life is getting better is one of the most important roles the OECD can take on".

Mamphela Ramphele, Co-chair, Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM)

"The measurement of anything that is of importance elevates its importance".

Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP

"World GDP growth has been faster than it has been for a very long time. But people are not particularly happy".

François Bourguignon, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank

"Progress indicators are a way for people to hold their governments accountable".