Speakers
Amparo González-Ferrer Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Amparo González-Ferrer obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, her dissertation, titled “Family and labor strategies in migration. Family reunification, partner choice and female labor participation in the host country.”
Since 2008 Amparo González-Ferrer is Senior Research Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and member of the Research Group on Demographic Dynamics. She has extensively worked on international migration to Europe, with special attention to family-linked migration, political integration of migrants and determinants of international migration.
She is currently coordinating an EU project titled TEMPER-Temporary versus Permanent Migration, and was main investigator of the Spanish team of MAFE-Migration between Africa and Europe, both funded by the VII Framework Program of the EU Commission.
Gallo Gueye Eurostat
Gallo Gueye is Director of Social Statistics of Eurostat
He joined Eurostat in 1995 to deal with national accounts methodology and own resource statistics for the EU Budget. He then worked on monetary, financial and balance of payments statistics. As Head of unit, as from 2006, he has been responsible for national accounts and principal European economic indicators. In particular, he has been responsible for the development of the new European System of Accounts (ESA 2010).
Mariana Kotzeva Acting Director-General of Eurostat
On 1 January this year, Mariana Kotzeva became the Acting Director-General of Eurostat. Mrs Kotzeva’s appointment follows the retirement of Walter Radermacher, in charge of Eurostat from 1 August 2008 until the end of last year.
Mariana Kotzeva, who is a Bulgarian national, joined Eurostat as a special adviser (Adviser hors classe) in April 2012. In July 2014, she became Deputy Director-General, a post she still holds today.
Prior to joining the European Commission, Mrs Kotzeva was the Head of Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute. She held a number of high-level advisory posts in the Bulgarian and foreign administrations and led international projects for the United Nations and the World Bank.
Mrs Kotzeva has a Master’s degree in economics and a PhD in statistics and econometrics.
Ineke Stoop Chair of European Statistical Advisory Committee
Ineke Stoop has been the Chair of ESAC since 2014. She is Head of the Methodology Department at The Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP), a government agency which conducts research into the social aspects of all areas of government policy.
She obtained her Ph.D. in social sciences from Utrecht University for a thesis on survey non-response. She is also Deputy Director Methodological of the European Social Survey. Dr Stoop is co-founder of the Dutch Platform for Survey Research, laureate of the 2005 Descartes Prize for Excellence in Scientific Collaborative Research, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She has taught courses on non-response, survey design and comparative surveys, and has authored articles, chapters and books on the same topics.
Maria João Valente RosaEuropean Statistical Advisory Committee
Maria João Valente Rosa earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography (1993) at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in the New University of Lisbon (FCSH/UNL), where she is currently professor at the Department of Sociology.
She is director of Pordata, a free online statistics database promoted by Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation (since 2009) and partner of a “social lab”, Social Data Lab.
Maria João Valente Rosa is author, co-author or coordinator of several books, mainly on social demography and sociology.
She coordinated the area of Statistics in the Portuguese Ministry of Education (2005–2006) and Ministry of Science (2007–2009).
She is currently member of the National Higher Council of Statistics (since 2012) and of the European Statistical Advisory Committee – ESAC (since 2014), where she is member of the Executive Board position of Statistics User Network Coordinator (since 2015).
Gabriella Vukovich President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office
Gabriella Vukovich was born in 1954. She holds a doctorate degree from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
She is member of IAOS. She has been involved in ISI activities since her appointment in 2010 to the post of President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. Prior to her appointment she was a consultant in social statistics and demography. Between 1998 and 2004 she was Vice President of the HCSO, before that the director of the Census Department.
She trained as a demographer in the Demographic Research Institute of the HCSO, where she did research on population ageing, and family demography. She also worked as a demographer at the Population Activities Unit of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva and as population and development specialist at the Population Division of the United Nations in New York.
She holds an Honorary doctorate “Doctor honoris causa” and an Honorary professor title from the University of Miskolc. Between 2005 and 2010, she taught demography and social statistics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. For her achievements in statistical training, in spreading statistical literacy and in the development of official statistics she was awarded the Commemorative medal ”Pro Universitate Hungariae Occidentalis” of the University of West Hungary and the Commemorative Medal “Pro Facultate” of the Faculty of Economics of Corvinus University, Budapest. She is Member of the Advisory Board of the Budapest Business School, University of Applied Sciences.
She was elected Co-chair of the UN High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for post-2015 monitoring in 2015. In 2012-2013 she was Chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission, in 2014 she was Acting Chair of the UNSC.
Frans Willekens Professor Emeritus of Population Studies, University of Groningen
Frans Willekens is Professor Emeritus of Population Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and former director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in The Hague. From April 2013 to March 2016, he was Senior Research Scientist and Chief Research Coordinator at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany. Currently, he is Honorary Fellow of NIDI.
Frans Willekens (1946) studied tropical agriculture and economics at the University of Leuven and spent the first years of his professional career as an agricultural economist in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He then left to study in the Unites States and received a PhD degree in Urban Systems Engineering from the Technological Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. (1976), with a thesis on migration policy analytics.
He is Chair of the Scientific Board of the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) and is leading an international panel on Microsimulation and Agent-based Modelling, initiated by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). In 2014, he received a lifetime achievement award from the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS).
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