Papa Seck

Papa Seck is the Chief Statistician at UN Women. Since joining UN Women in 2009, he has led statistics and data work at UN Women and has also contributed to the Research work of UN Women more broadly, including co-authoring two editions of Progress of the World 's Women as well as various other research products. He leads UN Women’s efforts to monitor the SDGs and for the past year has coordinated the UN System 's efforts to ensure the inclusion of strong gender indicators in the SDGs.

He is currently leading the implementation of UN Women’s flagship programme initiative on gender statistics: Making Every Woman and Girl Count, to improve the production and use of gender relevant statistics and to help countries systematically monitor the Sustainable Development Goals form a gender perspective. In 2012, he also led the development of the Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) programme, in collaboration with the UN Statistics Division, to develop innovative new measures and standards to measure asset ownership and entrepreneurship from a gender perspective.