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Ronald Jansen

Assistant Director
United Nations Statistics Division

Ronald Jansen is Assistant Director of the United Nations Statistics Division in New York. He is responsible for the Division’s work on data innovation and on capacity development strategies. This includes supporting the work of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics, and specifically the UN Global Platform and its Regional Hubs. The platform is a collaborative environment for the global statistical community to jointly execute data innovation projects and share data, services, methods and expertise.

His educational background is in Statistics and Psychology; he obtained a PhD in mathematical modelling of human information processing in May 1990; then joined the UN Statistics Division in June 1990 in New York.