| Filipina named head of UN statistical agency By Jovan Cerda Philstar.com February 15, 2012 |
MANILA, Philippines - A Filipina has been appointed as the new director of the United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (UN-SIAP), a statement from the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) released Wednesday said.
Margarita F. Guerrero, a former director of the Industry and Trade Statistics Department of the National Statistics Office, is the new head of UN-SIAP, an international body tasked to produce and disseminate statistics relevant to the economic development of UN member-countries in the region.
Guerrero is the third Filipino and the second woman to hold the position of director of UN-SIAP. She previously served as lecturer/statistician of the UN-SIAP and was the regional adviser on Statistics at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, NSCB said.
"The NSCB and the PSS (Philippine Statistical System) benefited from the valuable contribution of Dr. Guerrero in the development of statistics in the Philippines through her membership and sharing of expertise in the various NSCB-created committees such as the Technical Committee on Survey Design, Technical Committee on Seasonal Adjustment of Philippine Time Series, and Interagency Committee on Trade Statistics, among others," the state agency added.
A graduate of statistics from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Guerrero joined the UPLB faculty and served as director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics. She earned her doctorate degree in statistics in 1984 from the Iowa State University, NSCB said.
Margarita F. Guerrero, a former director of the Industry and Trade Statistics Department of the National Statistics Office, is the new head of UN-SIAP, an international body tasked to produce and disseminate statistics relevant to the economic development of UN member-countries in the region.
Guerrero is the third Filipino and the second woman to hold the position of director of UN-SIAP. She previously served as lecturer/statistician of the UN-SIAP and was the regional adviser on Statistics at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, NSCB said.
"The NSCB and the PSS (Philippine Statistical System) benefited from the valuable contribution of Dr. Guerrero in the development of statistics in the Philippines through her membership and sharing of expertise in the various NSCB-created committees such as the Technical Committee on Survey Design, Technical Committee on Seasonal Adjustment of Philippine Time Series, and Interagency Committee on Trade Statistics, among others," the state agency added.
A graduate of statistics from the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Guerrero joined the UPLB faculty and served as director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics. She earned her doctorate degree in statistics in 1984 from the Iowa State University, NSCB said.
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