National of Uruguay, ILO’s Chief Statistician and Director or the Department of Statistics since 2009. He joined the ILO (Geneva) in 2003 as a Senior Economist. From 2007-2008 he was Senior Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean in the Office of the Director-General.
He has been the Secretary-General of the 19th, 20th and 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians, held in 2013, 2018 and 2023.
He holds a M.A. in Economics and Econometrics (UDELAR) and post-graduate studies in Statistics and Econometrics (CIENES, Chile). Former Director of the Labour Force Surveys Division (National Statistical Institute (INE), Uruguay), in 1986 he joined the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) as Regional Advisor in Labour Markets, Special Advisor to the Executive Secretary and was the Director of the ECLAC Office in Montevideo.
He worked as consultant to the World Bank, the IADB, FAO, UNDP, UNIDO, GTZ, IOM, ILO, EC, UNFPA.
Professor of Econometrics, Statistics, Sampling Techniques and Econometrics at many universities in Latin America and the Caribbean, has authored several books and publications in statistical methods and applied time series.