How do you use technology/policy to improve citizens’ lives? Tell us about your role or organisation.
I am heading the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). ESCAP is part of the United Nations (UN) secretariat. We work with 58 Asia-Pacific countries and territories on their aspirations to improve peoples’ lives through the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the universal plan adopted by 193 countries in 2015 to achieve 17 ambitious Goals including eliminating poverty and hunger, cleaning our air, oceans and land, co-existing in peace and many others.
In adopting the Agenda, countries agreed to a global follow-up and review process including 231 indicators. My Division works with countries to advance official statistics for these indicators of the 2030 Agenda and national policy priorities more generally.