Elisabetta Carfagna

Full Professor of Statistics at the University of Bologna, elected member of the Council of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) 2025-2029, Chair of the ISI Special Interest Group on Data Science, elected member of the Council of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS) 2023-2027, and member of the ISI Committee on Agricultural Statistics, she began her academic career after reaching a management position in the Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems research and development department of a major Italian company at the age of 28. She has led and participated in international research projects in collaboration with European and United Nations organizations and has been involved in capacity-building projects in several countries. She contributed to the design and implementation of the Global Strategy for the Improvement of Agricultural and Rural Statistics, a joint initiative promoted by UN agencies. Her main research topics are data science, sample survey design, and the use of geospatial information and administrative data for agricultural, rural, agri-environmental, and environmental monitoring.