HERNÁN MUÑOZ

Former Data Ecosystem Advisor

Economist of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), with postgraduate studies in Finance (UBA), MSc in Public Policy (University of San Andrés), and currently, PhD candidate at Sapienza University of Rome.

He has specialized in strategic planning, statistical capacity building and good practices. He was National Director of Planning, Institutional and International Relations of the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. Since 2020, he collaborates with Cepei as Data Ecosystems Advisor.

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During his time at INDEC, he was a member of the UN High-Level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development from its creation, and co-chaired the Program Committee of the first World Data Forum. He was also part of the Friends of the Chair Group on the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics of the United Nations Statistical Commission. Previously, he worked as a professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires developing alternative sources for economic statistics. He was also a statistical and planning advisor for DANE in Colombia, IADB and FAO.

Events participation

PARIS21 and Cepei pioneering the creation of a regional network for data-driven communications

May 31, 2022

PARIS21 and Cepei, together with the NSOs of the region, held the first meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean regional network for data-driven communications, which seeks to bring data and statistics closer to decision-makers.

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Road to Bern: Non-traditional data sources for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

June 24, 2021

Cepei and the National Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE) held the second webinar of the Road to Berne series which provided tools to promote the use of non-traditional data sources in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Publications

Using Retail Scanner Data to Estimate CPI in Chile

June 26, 2023

This Case Study provides insights into the partnership between several Chilean companies that collect retail barcode data and the Chile National Institute of Statistics, which combines these data with traditional survey data to produce the Consumer Price Index.

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