Elisabetta Carfagna

Full professor of statistics since 2005 and Chair of the International Statistical Society Special Interest Group on Data Science, she started her academic career after having reached, at the age of 28, a managerial position in the R&D department of a leading Italian company. She was shortlisted for the presidency of Istat in 2014 and 2018 and for the positions of Director of FAO Trade and Markets Division in 2014 and of FAO Statistics Division in 2001. She has designed and started up the implementation of the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics, the most relevant research and capacity development programme promoted by FAO, IFAD, World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank etc. and funded by BMGF, DIFID and EC. Since 1993, she has lead international research projects, in collaboration with several organizations, among which FAO, EUROSTAT, JRC, UNECE, USDA, Chinese Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Ethiopian CSO, Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Istat