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“European Framework for Measuring Progress” e-Frame www.eframeproject.eu SP1-Cooperation Coordination and support actions (Coordinating actions) FP7 SSH-2011-3 Grant Agreement Number 290520 SSH.2011.6.2-1

Deliverable 12.2 Dissemination level: PU Workshop/Conference Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies Organisers CBS, Netherlands EUROSTAT, Luxembourg Istat, Italy OECD, France Authors of the report: OECD e-Frame Conference Secretariat Report compiled by: Carine Viac, Statistics Directorate, OECD

26–28 June 2012

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SUMMARY Initial e-Frame Conference The initial e-Frame Conference was designed to enhance the coherence and direction of the whole e-Frame project and to promote high level exchanges among key stakeholders. It also represented an opportunity to conduct wider meetings associated with the project. The European Conference which took place on the 26-28 June 2012 was organised by the OECD, in collaboration with e-Frame (European Framework for Measuring Progress) partners and Eurostat. The Conference focused on recent activities in the field of measuring progress and well-being, and aimed to foster European debate on the wide range of issues related to this agenda. It gathered over 200 policy makers, statisticians, academics, and other stakeholders from the European region who have a specific interest in the field. Its purpose was to deepen on-going reflection on how to measure well-being and the progress of societies, enhance the relevance of measures and analysis for addressing key policy issues, and lead to concrete outputs, such as establishing frameworks for future co-operation. As well as being the first milestone for the co-ordination activities undertaken as part of e-Frame project, it was a platform for discussing how best to advance the implementation of the recommendations included in the Final Report of the European Statistical System (ESS) Sponsorship Group on Measuring Progress, Well-Being and Sustainable Development, adopted by the ESS Committee in November 2011. The Conference also constituted a key European contribution to the OECD global process of regional Conferences on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies. It acted as a launchpad for defining a European dimension on the topic and reaching a common position in preparation of the 4th OECD World Forum planned for Autumn 2012. Its key messages were that:

The well-being and progress agenda is well established in European discussion at both measurement and policy levels.

Many initiatives have been undertaken in various countries and at a European level, underlying the growing consensus about the importance of well-being - whilst appreciating their complementary natures contain cultural differences.

The frameworks adopted by the OECD, the European Commission and e-Frame are similar, fostering synergies and promoting collaboration.

Whilst the use of GDP has dominated the mitigation of financial and government debt, and the banking crisis, there are clear calls for parallel metrics on well-being now and in the future.

The success of well-being and progress initiatives at local, national, and regional levels, depends on both political leadership and public consultation processes, managed from both a bottom up and a top down perspective.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. THE STATE OF THE ART 4 2. THE DEBATE AND THE MAIN RESULTS 5 2.1. Material conditions 5 2.1.1. Income inequalities 5 2.1.2. Jobs and earnings 6 2.1.3. Wealth distribution 6 2.2. Quality of life 7 2.2.1. Subjective well-being 7 2.2.2. Social connections and civic participation 8 2.2.3. Regional and local dimensions 9 2.3. Sustainability 9 2.3.1. Environmental capital 10 2.3.2. Human capital and ageing 10 2.3.3. Trans-boundary impacts 11 3. THE OPEN ISSUES 11 4. CONCLUSIONS 12 4.1. Some key messages 12 4.2. Cross-cutting measurement issues 12 4.3. Cross-cutting policy issues 13 5. ANNEXES 13 A Agenda 14 B List of participants 19 C Speaker biographies and photographs 23

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1. THE STATE OF THE ART The economic crisis has called into question many of the traditionally held principles which have guided economic and development policies for the last 50 years. It is increasingly evident that the policy prescriptions of yesterday are becoming less relevant for the challenges of today and tomorrow. The recent surge in social movements, from the Arab Spring to “Occupy Wall Street”, is a clear call for an economy with a more human face, and for a political system that is capable of making decisions with a sense of what is good for ordinary people and families. These challenges require new ways of thinking, greater co-operation and more social cohesion. The Conference focused on recent activities in the field of measuring progress and well-being, and aimed to foster European debate on the wide range of issues related to this agenda. It represented the first milestone for the coordination activities undertaken as part of the European Framework for Measuring Progress (e-Frame) EU FP7 project, and a platform for discussing how best to advance the implementation of the recommendations included in the Final Report of the European Statistical System (ESS) Sponsorship Group on Measuring Progress, Well-Being and Sustainable Development, adopted by the ESS Committee in November 2011. It was the last in a series of regional events being conducted in preparation for the 4th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, to be held in New Delhi on 16-19 October 2012, and was the primary mechanism for shaping the European contribution to this event. The Conference, held on 26-28 June 2012, was organised by the OECD, as partner of e-Frame, with the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Statistics Netherlands (CBS) as coordinators of e-Frame and in collaboration with Eurostat and the European Statistical System. The two and a half day event was shaped around three themed sessions structured into three stages. Stage 1, in plenary, involved the session chair presenting a general overview of three different issues relating to each theme. Stage 2, in parallel, involved each workshop chair to focus on specific issues and facilitate deeper reflection. Stage 3, in plenary, began with each workshop chair reporting back on the concerns, ideas and proposals raised in the parallel workshops, and was then continued with general discussion and conclusions by the session chair. The three themed sessions focused on material conditions, quality of life, and sustainability. The subjects for the parallel workshops included income inequalities, jobs and earnings, household, wealth and distribution, subjective well-being, social connections and civic participation, regional and urban dimensions, environmental capital, human capital, and population ageing: implications for economic and social sustainability. More information available from the Conference website: www.oecd.org/progress/europe

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2. THE DEBATE AND THE MAIN RESULTS 2.1. Material conditions Material conditions capture the consumption possibilities of people, i.e. their economic well-being. Measures of people’s material conditions hence include their incomes, their jobs and the earnings their pay, their assets and consumption expenditures. Measures of material conditions should look beyond the average level of material conditions in a society, to consider the distribution of outcomes across people with different characteristics and the opportunities that people have to move up this distribution across time and between generations. This theme was split into three workshops: income inequalities, jobs and earnings and wealth distribution. 2.1.1. Income inequalities Household income is the most commonly used measure of people’s material conditions: it allows people to consume goods and services, to satisfy their needs and to make choices in a variety of life spheres. There are two main approaches to measure household income: as average disposable income from macro sources (adjusted to include the value of government provided services) for the household sector as a whole, and as micro measures of the distribution of household income. This workshop focused on what is known on how economic resources are distributed across individuals and population groups, and how best to measure poverty and social exclusion. The workshop also discussed the main limits of the available measures in the European context, and described some of the ongoing initiatives to improve them. An underlying theme for the workshop was how better measures in this field could support the design and implementation of policies that are more effective in tackling income inequalities and poverty. This workshop was chaired by Michael Forster, Senior Analyst, OECD Social Policy Division. • Linking inequality and overall performance of the economy, as defined in classical well-being analysis, remains broadly speaking true in the light of recent developments, both theoretical and empirical. Fostering the progress of societies could then be seen as how to set an agenda for measuring the implied trade-offs from a policy perspective. • It is necessary to re-emphasise the necessity, but not the sufficiency, of the household perspective. Household-based macroeconomic indicators provide quite a different picture from whole economic performance measures. Timeliness and regular monitoring (as allowed per quarter by the SNA for example) is also essential. Note that this issue has already been tackled by the OECD (cf. Chap 1 of HIL with the Household Net Adjusted Disposable Income). • Recognising the multidimensional aspect of well-being through advanced statistical measurement is also a way to be paved, as it allows to encapsulate into a single measure different dimensions shaped by different policies.

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2.1.2. Jobs and earnings The availability of quality jobs and the earnings they yield are critical factors for people’s material well-being. Access to quality jobs increases individual resources but also enables people to build self-esteem, get recognition from others, and fulfil personal ambition and aspiration. Measures in this field encompass both objective aspects (such as the distribution of earnings and non-wage benefits, contractual relations) and subjective aspects (e.g. job satisfaction, stress at work, job insecurity). This workshop focused on the state of the available information in this field, on how better and more comparable statistics could enhance our understanding of the relationships between different aspects of jobs and their impact on people’s well-being, and how better measures in this field could lead to more effective policies. This workshop was chaired by Stefano Scarpetta, Deputy Director, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD. • Availability and quality of jobs are key components of well-being in terms of self-esteem. • In the current economic climate, there appears to be a shift of emphasis away from the importance of job quality towards the importance of job availability (for example, when observing the growing number of enforced reductions to job hours). • Some indicators are still difficult to measure (i.e. mental health and social dialogue) and more works needs to be done. • The use of indicators, the consistency of sources and the definition of the statistical frameworks are crucial in this area and these have been already well-achieved. What matters now is the implementation of policies and the political framework to improve job patterns in terms of quality and quantity of jobs. 2.1.3. Wealth distribution People’s consumption possibilities are shaped by the amount of their wealth holdings, considering both their assets and their financial commitments. The information on household wealth that is currently available in European countries remains limited at both the macro and, to an even larger extent, micro level. However, a number of initiatives to expand available information (e.g. the forthcoming Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey - HFCS) and to increase their comparability are currently underway. This workshop focused on the type of analytical and policy issues that could be addressed with better data on the distribution of household wealth, and on some of the ongoing initiatives (e.g. HFCS) that aim to improve the information that is currently available in this field - and to increase their comparability. It discussed how to improve micro data on the distribution of household wealth, stressing the importance of ex ante harmonisation of statistics in this field through guidelines. It focused on the integrated use of macro and micro statistics to provide a more complete and comprehensive picture of wealth distribution. Some preliminary results of the Eurosystem HFCS in eight euro area countries showed how a household wealth survey may contribute to the assessment of people’s economic well-being. This workshop was chaired by Wim van Nunspeet, Director of Socio-economic and spatial statistics, CBS Netherlands.

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• Most countries produce micro-data on household wealth but huge differences in sources, concepts and methods still exist. The OECD has recently established a project and an Expert Group to progress the development of wealth standards and guidelines and propose an integrated framework for micro statistics on household income, consumption and wealth. • Wealth is far more unevenly distributed than income. Large cross-country differences exist in terms of household liabilities, financial pressure and access to credit. Considering income and consumption jointly with wealth is key to understand well-being. • It is important to create a link between macro-data and micro-data so as to get a more comprehensive picture of wealth distribution. 2.2. Quality of Life Quality of life depends on both people’s attributes and on the characteristics of the environment and society in which they live together as a community. Both of these aspects shape people’s ‘doings and beings’, as well as their opportunities, freedoms and choices. Quality of life therefore takes us beyond the notion of people’s economic resources and material conditions, requiring consideration of their health status, their education and skills, their social connections, the ease with which they can balance work and family life, the quality of the environment where they live, their personal security, the extent of their civic engagement and the features of the governance system, and their subjective experiences and evaluations of their life. Measuring quality of life also requires looking at all of these elements at the same time and based on a variety of perspectives: objective and subjective, averages and disparities across population groups, national and sub-national levels. Within the broad domain of quality of life, three set of issues were discussed in three parallel workshops. 2.2.1. Subjective well-being Subjective well-being considers how people feel in terms of their own evaluations and emotions. This workshop focused on current developments in the measurement of subjective well-being in a number of European countries and on ongoing efforts at the OECD to develop statistical guidance for data producers and users in this field. Special attention was paid to what had been learned from recent initiatives to measure subjective well-being at a national level and to identify the main questions that would need to be resolved in order for measures of subjective well-being to play a larger role in policy making. This workshop was chaired by Charles Seaford, New Economics Foundation, UK.

Subjective well-being measures have arrived. Discussions are moving away from whether and why to measure subjective well-being, to more specific questions about the best way to measure it and how we can best structure and package this data for policy-makers.

On the measurement front, examples from the UK and France highlight that national statistical offices are already collecting experimental data on subjective well-being. Thanks to this and other work, a clear idea of the measurement challenges in emerging, and the research needed to address those challenges. International consensus on measurement is important not only for comparability, but also to avoid the politicisation of subjective well-being.

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Examples have been given on the role that subjective well-being can play in policy-making. Data may need to be structured and packaged differently for different audiences and different uses. Being able to look in detail at the distribution of the data will be important. It is also clear that we have much to gain from looking at subjective well-being in combination with other social, economic and environmental indicators.

A strong suggestion was that subjective well-being should supplement rather than supplant GDP. 2.2.2. Social connections and civic participation This workshop focused on social relations and civic participation as important dimensions of people’s quality of life. It discussed measures of the various forms of social capital and considered whether these measures point to a decline in social capital in European countries. From a social connections perspective, the workshop paid close attention to social isolation, and to the extent to which this is a threat to individual well-being and social cohesion. From a different perspective, the workshop also explored whether and how civic participation could affect people's subjective quality of life at regional and national levels, as well as the role of formal and informal institutions (such as social norms and cultural practices) in either ensuring or limiting the equitable participation by all people in civic life. This workshop was chaired by Heinz-Herbert Noll, Head of the Social Indicators Research, Centre of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany.

Social connections are arguably the most important determinant of well-being at an individual level, not only influencing our levels of happiness but also other life outcomes such as health status and educational attainment. In Europe, 8% of people say they have no-one to talk to and 12% say they rarely or never socialise outside the home (ESS, 2010). This represents a surprisingly large proportion of the population, and there needs to be a discussion about whether and how policy interventions could address the needs of the socially isolated.

Civic participation serves broader social goals (e.g. strengthening democracy, quality of governance, and community ties) as well as contributing to individual well-being. Levels of “civicness” vary greatly within and between countries, according to a new Gallup composite index. Evidence shows that those living in areas with high levels of civic engagement have higher life satisfaction, and this is true even after controlling for individual level effects (age, gender, education, etc.).

Given the importance of social connections and civic participation (together considered “social capital”) it is of vital importance that we develop meaningful measures and address existing conceptual, methodological and practical challenges to better understand drivers and trends. The social capital index developed in the Netherlands for example, shows that contrary to popular perceptions, there is no decline in social capital. However levels of social capital differ greatly between regions.

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2.2.3. Regional and local dimensions This workshop considered how quality of life could be measured and affected at different geographical scales. It focused on the need to develop better measures of quality of life (as well as material conditions) at the regional and local level, at a range of initiatives that have recently been taken in this field, and at the ways in which better well-being measures could support the design of policies that can be more effective in improving people’s life and in reducing regional disparities. It also discussed methods to produce internationally comparable statistics at regional and local scales, by integrating administrative sources and geographic information systems or using small area estimates. Effective policy making at all geographical levels requires reliable and regularly updated well-being indicators, and many of the policy decisions influencing quality of life are taken at the regional or local level. Therefore, national statistical institutes should explore methods to provide more and better sub-national well-being indicators to highlight genuine regional or local problems that are hidden by national averages. This workshop was chaired by Lewis Dijkstra, Deputy Head of the Analysis Unit, Directorate-General for Regional Policy of the European Commission.

Well-being metrics at the national level may hide large heterogeneity so there is a need to increase the spatial resolution of statistics and measure well-being also at the regional and local level.

Many National Statistical Offices have been developing different methods and tools that allow the provision of well-being figures at a sub-national level. The OECD has recently launched a project to identify a set of common indicators and provide support for producing data at different scales

Not all the indicators developed at the national level are relevant for regions; on the other hand, local specificities may need to be reflected in indicators that are not systematically provided at the national level.

2.3. Sustainability Sustainability is generally understood as the requirement of meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. As this definition is broad, more specific approaches to sustainability focus on the resources that are required to sustain well-being, in its different dimensions, both over time and across different spaces. Resources come in many shapes and forms, and are sometimes described as different types of capital - economic capital, environmental capital, human and social capital. While each of these types of capital is shaped by a variety of elements, some of these elements are already evident today, implying that some of today’s societal choices (e.g. to invest and preserve critical stocks of resources, rather than to letting them to deteriorate over time) will shape future well-being. This theme deals with sustainability in its different forms, with a focus on three domains where unsustainable patterns of economic activity create the greatest risk to future well-being. For all the specific domains discussed, one key question addressed is how better measures of sustainability could inform better policy decisions.

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2.3.1. Environmental capital This workshop considered the importance of environmental capital and its measurement. Discussions mentioned the need to maintain the integrity of ecosystems through the efficient management of natural resources; de-couple environmental pressures from economic growth; improve information for decision making; and address global environmental interdependence. Questions that were discussed during the workshop were the following: what are the main threats to environmental sustainability?; which groups in the population are most exposed to environmental degradation?; how can we capture the dangers of a loss of environmental capital to economic growth?; what indicators are most useful in identifying the environmental sustainability of a given development trajectory? More generally, how should environmental capital be measured? And more specifically: do we need a monetary valuation of environmental capital? This workshop was chaired by Paul Schreyer, Deputy Chief Statistician, OECD.

There is general consensus that the notion and measurement of environmental capital is important in the context of sustainability.

From a policy perspective, a better understanding of environmental assets and ecosystem capital is needed to enable integration into economic accounting systems.

Challenges for the future include: the treatment of thresholds; refining monetary evaluation of environmental balance sheets; and implementing the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts (SEEA).

2.3.2. Human capital and ageing Human capital is a key part of a nation’s wealth. By some estimates it is the most important element in explaining differences in total wealth among developed countries. It is also critical to a country’s economic and social well-being: as a driver of economic growth, innovation and increased productivity; as a key determinant of an individual’s material standard of living; and as it delivers a wide range of non-economic benefits to both the individual investing in it and to society at large. This session discussed the needs to understand the flows into and out of our ‘human capital stock’, as well as what works and what does not in sustaining its accumulation. In the context of today's European society, population ageing presents a specific challenge to maintain our stocks of human capital. The session discussed different approaches to measuring the stock of human capital, to understand the nature of its drivers, and to measure the range of benefits that it delivers. This workshop was chaired by Clare Ward, Deputy Government Statisticians, Statistics New Zealand.

Human capital is a crucial element in terms of sustainable development which requires a multi-dimensional approach.

Beyond the stock of Human capital, it is worth also to consider issues on the flows of Human Capital such as fertility and international mobility for which more researches need to be undertaken.

It is important to consider both monetary and non-monetary aspects of human capital – the existing satellite national accounts (SNA) may provide a useful template.

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Established methodology and data are available for human capital. Analyses undertaken by the OECD have already provided some first interesting results.

2.3.3. Trans-boundary impacts Local consumption and production patterns have pervasive cross-border effects on sustainability. This requires new thinking and governance structures that go beyond the national level. This workshop explored this critical dimension of sustainability, namely: how patterns of economic development in one country or region might impact on the material conditions and quality of life of different regions of the world, both today and in the future. It tried to raise awareness of the trans-boundary impacts in the area of economic, environmental, human and social capital, and to motivate the development of statistics and statistical infrastructure needed for policy in this area. It explored existing measurement frameworks including trade in value added, ecological footprinting (such as carbon footprints), and migration (including brain drain), and underscore the need for better indicators to trace the links of sustainability across geographical boundaries. This workshop was chaired by Marcel Timmer, Professor of Economic Growth and Development, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

This session examined the global impacts of trade and consumption.

National policies and activities can have global effects, and if we only focus on domestic production, we miss an important part of the picture.

We therefore need better global data, and better global governance of data collection, to be able to take into account the interdependencies in well-being and sustainability between countries.

3. THE OPEN ISSUES

Collaboration between European statisticians and policy makers at local, national, and regional levels must be strengthened to leverage initiatives and foster progress.

Conclusions from this e-Frame Conference should shape Europe’s contribution to the 4th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, “Measuring Well-Being for Development and Policy Making”, which will be held in New Delhi, India, on 16-19 October 2012.

The shift from well-being and progress measurement to policy uses in Europe should be showcased on the international stage to increase visibility and validity of such actions, and to encourage take-up elsewhere in the world.

European work on measuring well-being and progress should influence the Rio+20 and to the post-2015 development agendas.

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4. CONCLUSIONS 4.1. Some key messages

The well-being and progress agenda is well established in European discussion at both measurement and policy levels.

Many initiatives have been undertaken in various countries and at a European level, underlying the growing consensus about the importance of well-being - whilst appreciating their complementary natures contain cultural differences.

The frameworks adopted by the OECD, the European Commission and e-Frame are similar, fostering synergies and promoting collaboration.

Whilst the use of GDP has dominated the mitigation of financial and government debt, and the banking crisis, there are clear calls for parallel metrics on well-being now and in the future.

The success of well-being and progress initiatives at local, national, and regional levels, depends on both political leadership and public consultation processes, managed from both a bottom up and a top down perspective.

4.2. Cross-cutting measurement issues

There is a need to consider both objective and subjective indicators in order to measure and understand well-being and progress effectively.

Better quality and availability of microdata is required to enable its greater integration with macrodata, with the aim of providing a more complete and comprehensive picture of well-being and progress measurement.

The reporting of indicators should be sympathetic to geographic and demographic needs. Sometimes local area detail is required, sometimes regional, national or even global detail will suffice. Sometimes there is a need to focus on natural geographic entities and eco-systems. Sometimes there is a need to focus on specific population groups – the young, the old, the rich, the poor, women, men.

Further work is required to improve the timeliness of data collection and analysis, both in terms of physical data availability and conceptualisation.

There is recognition that research and measurement processes are expensive, but the investment can often prove valuable – good data are cheaper than bad decisions. Non-official data can play a significant role in complementing official data when necessary and appropriate.

Good communication is crucial to: inform civil society and other stakeholders; convince political actors about the validity of well-being and progress work; and demonstrate how much has already been achieved in this field to date.

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4.3. Cross-cutting policy issues

Well-being and progress measurement is a powerful tool to improve policy-making: it enables the identification of trade-offs and synergies within and between dimensions; it offers a multi-dimensional perspective; and it facilitates evaluation of past policies.

Many challenges remain, including the complex mapping of outcomes and drivers. Well-being and progress policies have to emanate from across a wide range of Government Ministries, implying the need for an holistic approach which transcend the silos which, in many cases, are still prevailing.

Initiatives in Quebec, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand are currently considered as the best examples of good practice in making the shift from measurement to policy.

5. ANNEXES

Annex A – Agenda

Annex B – List of participants

Annex C – Speaker biographies and photographs

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Annex A - Agenda

e-Frame “European Framework for Measuring Progress” (FP7 project)

Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies

26-28 June 2012, OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France

Day 1 Tuesday 26 June 2012 14:00-14:30 Registration and refreshments 14:30-15:30 Opening session Tim Clode, OECD (facilitation) Welcome addresses Yves Leterme, OECD Deputy Secretary-General Algirdas Šemeta, EU Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud Introductory addresses e-Frame project: Gosse van der Veen, Director General, CBS Netherlands ESS sponsorship: Walter Radermacher, Director General, Eurostat OECD: Martine Durand, Chief Statistician, OECD 15:30-16:00 Keynote address Edward Scicluna, Vice-Chairman of the EU Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs 16:00–16:20 Refreshments 16:20-18:00 Round table The importance of well-being in the midst of the current financial crisis Chair: Françoise Crouïgneau, Vice-President, Association des journalistes économiques et financiers Ulla Rosenström, Office of the Prime Minister, Finland Michele Dau, Deputy Secretary General, Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro, Italy Daniel Daianu, Professor of Economics, The National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, former finance minister of Romania and former MEP Jeroen van den Bergh, ICREA Research Professor & Deputy Director of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Professor of Environmental Economics, VU University Amsterdam General discussion Conclusions: Chair

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Day 2: Wednesday 27 June 2012 THEME 1: Material conditions 09:30-10:10 Material conditions (part 1 in plenary) Introduction by Session Chair: Radek Maly, DG EMPL, European Commission Overview address: Bea Cantillon, University of Antwerp, Belgium 10:10-11:20 Material conditions (part 2 in parallel) 1a – Parallel room 1 (CC10) 1b – Parallel room 2 (CC2) 1c – Parallel room 3 (Auditorium)

Income inequalities Jobs and earnings Wealth distribution

Workshop Chair 1a: Michael Förster, OECD

Workshop Chair 1b: Stefano Scarpetta, OECD

Workshop Chair 1c: Wim van Nunspeet, CBS Netherlands

Panellist 1ai: Mario Pianta, University of Urbino, Italy

Panellist 1bi: Joachim Recktenwald, Eurostat

Panellist 1ci: Marco Mira d’Ercole, OECD

Panellist 1aii: Anne-Catherine Guio, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg

Panellist 1bii: Stan Siebert, University of Birmingham, UK

Panellist 1cii: Kirsten Wismer, Statistics Denmark

Panellist 1aiii: Denis Leythienne and Liviana Mattonetti, Eurostat

Panellist 1ciii: Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, European Central Bank

General discussion General discussion General discussion

11:20-11:40 Refreshments 11:40-12:30 Material conditions (part 3 in plenary) Building Common Ground: Session Chair (facilitation) Reports: Workshop Chairs General discussion Conclusions: Session Chair 12:30-14:00 Lunch 13:00-13:45 Lunchtime seminar (Auditorium) Beyond GDP: Long term changes in quality of life. How to measure them for the world economy, Jan Luiten van Zanden, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

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Theme 2: Quality of life 14:00-14:40 Quality of life (part 1 in plenary) Introduction by Session Chair: Eduardo Barredo-Capelot, Director of Social Statistics, Eurostat Overview address: Jeni Klugman, Director, Gender and Development, World Bank 14:40-15:50 Quality of life (part 2 in parallel) 2a – Parallel room 1 (CC10) 2b – Parallel room 2 (CC2) 2c – Parallel room 3 (Auditorium)

Subjective well-being Social connections and civic participation

Regional and local dimensions

Workshop Chair 2a: Charles Seaford, New Economics Foundation, UK

Workshop Chair 2b: Heinz-Herbert Noll, GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

Workshop Chair 2c: Lewis Dijkstra, DG REGIO, European Commission

Panellist 2ai: Stéfan Lollivier, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, France

Panellist 2bi: Hans Schmeets, Maastricht University, Netherlands

Panellist 2ci: Matthias Till, Statistics Austria, Austria

Panellist 2aii: Glenn Everett, Office for National Statistics, UK

Panellist 2bii: Robert Manchin, Gallup Europe

Panellist 2cii: Monica Brezzi, OECD and Giovanni Barbieri, ISTAT, Italy

Panellist 2aiii: Conal Smith, OECD Panellist 2biii: Orsolya Lelkes, European Institute, Vienna, Austria

Panellist 2ciii: Luigi Biggeri, Università Firenze, Italy

General discussion General discussion General discussion

15:50-16:10 Refreshments 16:10-17:00 Quality of life (part 3 in plenary) Building common ground: Session Chair (facilitation) Reports: Workshop Chairs General discussion Conclusions: Session Chair

17:10-18:30 Round table National experiences in the production of well-being statistics Chair: Marleen De Smedt, Adviser to the Director General, Eurostat Stephen Penneck, Director General, Office for National Statistics, UK Giovanni Barbieri, Istat, Italy Jean Louis Lhéritier, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, France Martin Siecker, European Economic and Social Council Gerard Eding, Head of National Accounts Department, CBS Netherlands General discussion Conclusions: Chair 18: 30 Cocktail

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Day 3: Thursday 28 June 2012

THEME 3: Sustainability 09:30-10:00 Sustainability (part 1 in plenary) Introduction by Session Chair: Lidia Bratanova, Director of Statistics, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Overview address Tim Jenkins, Great Transition Initiatives, New Economics Foundation, UK

10:00-11:10 Sustainability (part 2 in parallel) 3a – Parallel room 1 (CC10) 3b – Parallel room 2 (CC2) 3c – Parallel room 3 (Auditorium)

Environmental capital Human capital and ageing Trans-boundary impacts

Workshop Chair 3a: Paul Schreyer, OECD

Workshop Chair 3b: Clare Ward, Deputy Government Statistician, New Zealand

Workshop Chair 3c: Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Panellist 3ai: Oliver Zwirner, DG ENV, European Commission

Panellist 3bi: Fabrice Murtin, OECD Panellist 3ci: Hubert Escaith, World Trade Organisation

Panellist 3aii: Sjoerd Schenau, CBS Netherlands

Panellist 3bii: Alessandra Righi, Istat, Italy

Panellist 3cii: Edgar Hertwich, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Norway

Panellist 3aiii: Guillaume Mordant, Ministry of the Environment, France

Panellist 3biii: Gang Liu, OECD Panellist 3ciii: Nadim Ahmad, OECD

General discussion General discussion General discussion

11:10-11:30 Refreshments 11:30-12:20 Sustainability (part 3 in plenary) Building common ground: Session Chair (facilitation) Reports: Workshop Chairs General discussion Conclusions: Session Chair 12:20-14:30 Lunch 13:00-13:45 Lunchtime seminar (Auditorium) Future work of e-Frame project, Marina Signore, ISTAT, Italy and Rutger Hoekstra, CBS Netherlands. Presentations by Donatella Fazio, Istat, Italy; Tommaso Rondinella, Istat, Italy

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14:30-15:40 Round table Well-being policy frameworks at local, national, and international levels Chair: Wolfgang Petritsch, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Austria to the OECD Agnès Hubert, Bureau of European Policy Advisors Nicola de Michelis, Deputy Head of Cabinet, DG REGIO, European Commission, John Evans, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD Yves Leterme, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD General discussion Conclusions: Chair 15:40-16:00 Refreshments 16:00-17:30 Moving forward: Paving the way Martine Durand, Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics, OECD

-Summary of tentative conclusions Lidia Bratanova, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Eduardo Barredo-Capelot, Director of Social Statistics, Eurostat Enrico Giovannini, President, Istat, Italy 17:30 End of the conference

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Annex B - List of Participants

Last name Title First name Organisation Country/region

ABDALLAH Mr. Saamah The New Economics Foundation United Kingdom ACHIKBACHE Mr. Bahjat ADETEF France ACHTERBERG Mr. Peter RIVM n/a AHMAD Mr. Nadim OECD n/a ANAND Prof. Paul Oxford University United Kingdom ANINAKWAH Ms. Rachel Benchmark Holdings Ltd United Kingdom ARNAUD Mr. Benoit OECD n/a BALESTRA Ms. Carlotta OECD n/a BALKAN Mr. Dursun Turkish Ministry of Science Turkey BARBIERI Mr. Giovanni Istat Italy BARREDO-CAPELOT Mr. Eduardo Eurostat EU BERGHEIM Mr. Stefan Centre for Social Progress n/a BERTSCHEK Prof. Irene ZEW Germany BESSON Mr. Olivier OECD n/a BIGGERI Prof. Luigi University of Firenze Italy BIRMPILI Ms. Konstantina Permanent Delegation to the OECD Greece BOELHOUWER Dr. Jeroen Institute for Social Research Netherlands BOGAERT Mr. Henri Commissaire au Plan Belgium BOLTON Ms. Esther OECD n/a BRANGEON Mr. Victor Permanent Delegation to the OECD EU BRATANOVA Ms. Lidia UNECE n/a BROCKOVA Ms. Ingrid Permanent Delegation to the OECD Slovakia BYK Mr. Daniel STATEC Luxembourg CALZA Mrs. Maria Grazia Istat Italy CANTILLON Prof. Bea University of Antwerp Belgium CATTIER Mr. François EDF France CHAUCHAT Mr. Jean unknown n/a CHOUINARD Ms. Marie-France Permanent Delegation to the OECD Canada CLODE Mr. Tim OECD n/a COLI Ms. Alessandra University of Pisa Italy CORNELIS Mr. Jean-Philippe Sorbonne University Belgium COSSIC Mr. Benoît OECD n/a CROUIGNEAU Ms. Françoise AJEF France CUNEO Mr. Philippe INSEE France DAIANU Prof. Daniel Romanian Society of Economics Romania DAKOVIC Ms. Una Permanent Delegation to the OECD Germany DE HAAN Mr. Mark Statistics Netherlands Netherlands DE LAIGLESIA Mr. Juan OECD n/a DE MICHELIS Mr. Nicola DG REGIO EU DIJKSTRA Mr. Lewis DG REGIO EU DOLFE Ms. Sofia Permanent Delegation to the OECD EU DONINI Mr. François DFI Switzerland DURAND Ms. Martine OECD n/a DURMUS Ms. Ozlem Turkish Ministry of Science Turkey EDING Mr. Gerard Statistics Netherlands Netherlands EIFFE Dr. Franz Vienna University of Economics Austria ESCAITH Mr. Hubert World Trade Organisation (WTO) n/a EVANS Mr. John TUAC n/a EVERETT Mr. Glenn Office of National Statistics United Kingdom EXTON Ms. Carrie OECD n/a FARHANGI Mr. Ramin Spinoza Factory France FAZIO Ms. Donatella Istat Italy FESSEAU Ms. Maryse OECD n/a FLECHE Ms. Sarah Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm France FORSTER Mr. Michael OECD n/a FURRER Mr. Jurg Swiss Federal Statistical Office Switzerland GALOTTI Dr. Mattia Ecole Normale Supérieure France GIOVANNINI Mr. Enrico Istat Italy

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GOOCH Mr. Anthony OECD n/a GOURMELON Ms. Anais EDF France GRANT-KEJAIRI Ms. Suzanna OECD n/a GUIGO Mr. Miguel INE Spain GUIO Ms. Anne-Catherine CEPS INSTEAD EU HANSEN Mr. Henning Ministry of the Environment Denmark HEDERER Mr. Christian Permanent Delegation to the OECD Austria HEINZL Mr. Martin Austrian Statistical Office Austria HENNIS Ms. Marjoleine Permanent Delegation to the OECD Netherlands HERTWICH Mr. Edgar Norwegian University of Science Norway HOEKSTRA Mr. Rutger Statistics Netherlands Netherlands HONG Mr. Eun-Pyo OECD n/a HOURDE Mr. Denis CUA France HUBERT Ms. Agnes EC Secretariat-General EU HUQ Ms. Farah OECD n/a HUSZAR Ms. Alina Permanent Delegation to the OECD Romania JANAK Ms. Katalin Hungarian Central Statistical Office Hungary JAOTOMBO Dr. Frank SoREHDE n/a JENKINS Mr. Tim New Economics Foundation United Kingdom JOST Mr. Alexandre The Spinoza Factory France KAPURAN Mr. Slavko Serbian Statistical Office Serbia KARATHANASI Ms. Zoe Permanent Delegation to the OECD Greece KIM Mr. Sokwon Permanent Delegation to the OECD Korea KISS Mr. Stefan Ministry of Finance Slovakia KLEINMANN Ms. Shirley Les Echos France KLUGMAN Ms. Jeni The World Bank n/a KOECHLIN Ms. Francette OECD n/a KOT Mr. Tomasz Ministry of Regional Development Poland KRÁL Mr. Aleš Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Czech Republic KROEGER Mr. Philippe OECD n/a KRZESZEWSKA Ms. Iwona Permanent Delegation to the OECD Poland KUHRER Ms. Susanne Telekom Austria GmbH Austria LA ROSA-ELKAIM Ms. Catherine OECD n/a LAMBA Mr. Kuldeep MOSPI India LEBORGNE Mr. Aldric Permanent Delegation EU LEE Mr. Dong OECD n/a LELKES Dr. Orsolya European Centre for Social Welfare EU LENGLART Mr. Fabrice INSEE France LETERME Mr. Yves OECD n/a LEYTHIENNE Mr. Denis Eurostat EU LHÉRITIER Mr. Jean-Louis INSEE France LINGNAU Ms. Hildegard OECD n/a LIU Mr. Gang OECD n/a LOLLIVIER Mr. Stefan INSEE France MAGGINO Prof. Filomena Università degli Studi di Firenze Italy MALY Mr. Radek EC EU MANCHIN Mr. Robert The Gallup Organisation Europe EU MARZANO Mr. Antonio CNEL Italy MATTONETTI Ms. Maria Liviana Commission Europeenne - Eurostat EU MENUET Ms. Amelie Poland Delegation to the OECD Poland MERCY Mr. Jena-Louis Eurostat EU MEYDAN Mr. Mustafa Caner Ministry of Development Turkey MIKOLA Mr. István Permanent Delegation to the OECD Hungary MIRA D'ERCOLE Mr. Marco OECD n/a MISIAG Mr. Wojciech Supreme Chamber of Control Poland MONTICONE Ms. Chiara OECD n/a MORDANT Mr. Guillaume MEDDTL France MORIN Ms. Anne-Marie unknown n/a MOROSINI Dr. Marco Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Switzerland MOUTARLIER Mr. Valère Cabinet of Commissioner Šemeta EU MURTIN Mr. Fabrice OECD n/a

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NICOLAU Ms. Susan ODI United Kingdom NOLL Dr. Heinz-Herbert GESIS Germany NORKEVICIENE Ms. Daiva Cabinet of Commissioner Šemeta EU NOVKOVSKA Ms. Blagica Statistical Office of Macedonia Macedonia OLSEN Ms. Hilde OECD n/a PAASI Dr. Marianne DG Research EU PALMIERI Dr. Stefano TUAC n/a PAPAZOGLOU Mr. Nicolas Permanent Delegation to the OECD Greece PARROT Mr. Frederic OECD n/a PENNECK Mr. Stephen Office for National Statistics United Kingdom PERGER Dr. Werner A Die Zeit Germany PETRITSCH Mr. Wolfgang Permanent Delegation to the OECD Austria PETTERSSON Mr. Agne Ministry of Finance Sweden PIANTA Dr. Mario University of Urbino Italy PLATEAU Ms. Claire INSEE France POMAZI Mr. Istvan Ministry for National Economy Hungary PONT-HUBERT Ms. Ariane unknown France PUTZI-SCHMID Ms. Barbara Federal Ministry of Economy Austria RABL Dr. Ari Ecole des Mines de Paris France RADERMACHER Mr. Walter Eurostat EU RAMOS Ms. Ana Statistics Portugal Portugal RECKTENWALD Mr. Joachim Eurostat EU RENAULT Mr. Michel University of Rennes France REVENCO Ms. Victoria Council of Europe Development Bank n/a RICCARDINI Ms. Fabiola Istat Italy RIGHI Ms. Alessandra Istat Italy ROBERTI Prof. Paola unknown Italy RONDINELLA Mr. Tommaso Istat n/a ROSENSTRÖM Dr. Ulla Prime Minister's Office Finland ROTHEN Mr. Benjamin Swiss Federal Statistical Office Switzerland RUIZ Mr. Nicolas OECD n/a SADANA Dr. Ritu World Trade Organisation (WTO) n/a SAINT-MARTIN Ms. Anne OECD n/a SÁNCHEZ-MUÑOZ Mr. Carlos European Central Bank EU SAYAH Dr. Ikbal Human Development Observatory Morocco SAYLAM-BOLUKBAS Ms. Nazli Turkish Ministry of Science Turkey SCARPETTA Mr. Stefano OECD n/a SCHENAU Mr. Sjoerd Statistics Netherlands Netherlands SCHEWEISGUTH Ms. Danielle OFCE France SCHMEETS Prof. Hans Statistics Netherlands Netherlands SCHMIDT Ms. Katja Permanent Delegation to the OECD Germany SCHNEIDER Mr. Roland TUAC n/a SCHREYER Mr. Paul OECD France SCICLUNA Mr. Edward EC EU SCRIVENS Ms. Katherine OECD n/a SEAFORD Mr. Charles The New Economics Foundation United Kingdom SEMETA Mr. Algirdas EC EU SEQUENSOVA Ms. Veronika Czech Statistical Office Czech Republic SICHERL Prof. Pavie University of Ljubljana Slovenia SIEBERT Prof. Stan University of Birmingham United Kingdom SIECKER Mr. Martin EESC EU SIGNARDEAUX Mr. Ludovic Minsitry of Foreign Affairs France SIGNORE Ms. Marina Istat Italy SMITH Mr. Conal OECD n/a SON Mr. Young-Tae OECD n/a SKORATKO Ms. Laura C. University College London United Kingdom SPATOLISANO Ms. Maria-Francesca Permanent Delegation to the OECD EU SPENCE Ms. Alison Office for National Statistics United Kingdom SPOEREL Mr. Ulrich Federal Statistical Office Germany STEIN Dr. Claudia World Trade Organisation (WTO) n/a STEUDLER Mr. Olivier Permanent Delegation to the OECD Switzerland

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STORM Mr. Erik Permanent Delegation to the OECD Norway STOYE Ms. Sophie FAI Farms Ltd United Kingdom SUESSER Mr. Jan Robert Ministère du Budget France SZUKIELOJCBIENKUNSKA Ms. Anna Central Statistical Office of Poland Poland TASCI Mr. Kamil Ministry of Development Turkey TILL Mr. Matthias Austrian Statistical Office Austria TIMMER Mr. Marcel University of Groningen Netherlands TOMASI Mr. Serge OECD n/a TOSETTO Ms. Elena OECD n/a TÓTH Mr. Péter Permanent Delegation to the OECD Hungary ÜLGENTÜRK Ms. Lerzan Undersecretariat of Treasury Turkey VAN DEN BERGH Dr. Jeroen Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Spain VAN DER VEEN Mr. Gosse Statistics Netherlands Netherlands VAN ENK Ms. Elena OECD n/a VAN NUNSPEET Mr. Wim Statistics Netherlands Netherlands VAN ZANDEN Prof. Jan Luiten University of Utrecht Netherlands VIAC Ms. Carine OECD n/a VRALSTAD Ms. Signe Central Bureau of Statistics Sweden VUKMIROVIC Mr. Dragan Serbian Statistical Office Serbia WARD Ms. Clare Statistics New Zealand New Zealand WISMER Ms. Kirsten Statistics Denmark Denmark YÜKSEL Mr. Emre Ministry of Development Turkey ZWIRNER Mr. Oliver DG ENV EU

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Annex C – Speaker biographies and photographs

e-Frame “European Framework for Measuring Progress” (FP7 project)

Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies

26-28 June 2012, OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France

Photos and Biographies of Speakers

Nadim AHMAD is currently the Head of the Trade and Productivity section in the Statistics Directorate of the OECD, which he joined in 2000. He is also leading the OECD’s horizontal project on the development of Trade in Value-Added indicators. Nadim worked in the UK’s Office for National Statistics and Ministry of Finance (HM Treasury) before joining the OECD. He has considerable experience in a number of areas relating to economic statistics, in particular the National Accounts, Input-Output tables, and entrepreneurship statistics.

Giovanni A. BARBIERI, a regional economist by raising and by passion, has been a free-lance in applied economics and a professional user of statistics since 1977, before moving to Istat (Statistics Italy) in 1994. After managing for many years the areas of users’ needs, integration, dissemination, and territory, he is currently in charge of the Directorate of Structural Economic Statistics on Enterprises and Institutions, International Trade and Consumer Prices. He is in the Bureau of the Working Party on Territorial Indicators in OECD.

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Eduardo BARREDO CAPELOT has Academic degrees in Economics and Geography by the Universities of Madrid and London, respectively, and postgraduate studies at the College of Europe, in Bruges. He has developed most of his professinal career in Eurostat, where he is currently the Director for Social Statistics. He has worked in the areas of external trade and balance of payments statistics (also at the IMF), national accounts and government finance statistics, and business statistics.

Luigi BIGGERI is emeritus professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Firenze (Italy) and member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the International Comparison Program of the World Bank. He has published more than 200 works and has been president of Italian Statistical Society (SIS), from 1996 to 2000, and president of the Italian National Statistical Institute (Istat), from 2011 to 2009.

Lidia BRATANOVA is the Director of the Statistical Division of the UN Economic Commission for Europe since June 2009. She has 30 years of experience in official statistics, with focus on economic statistics.

She joined the UNECE in 1996. From 2003 she was Secretary of the Conference of European Statisticians and Deputy Director. She was responsible for and involved in a broad range of activities, such as the impact of globalization on national accounts, measuring sustainable development, and more recently time-use surveys, modernization of statistical production, environment statistics and climate change related statistics.

Prior to joining the UNECE, Mrs. Bratanova worked for 3 years with the Statistics Directorate of OECD in Paris, specializing in economies in transition and in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

She is Bulgarian and from 1981 to 1992 worked at the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria.

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Monica BREZZI is Head of the Regional Analysis and Statistics Unit in the Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development of the OECD. She has worked on the analysis of regional comparative advantages and the assessment of policies to reduce inequalities in the access to key services for citizens. She was the editor of the 2009 and 2011 editions of the OECD Regions at a Glance and of the book Redefining urban: a new way to measure metropolitan areas (OECD Publishing 2012). She spearheaded the initiative to launch and disseminate OECD eXplorer, an interactive graphic web tool to help decision makers and citizens develop a better knowledge of their society using statistical information. Before joining the OECD, she worked for the Ministry of Economic Development in Italy where she contributed to design and launch a performance-based policy to measure the efficiency of local public services. She holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Padua, Italy.

Pierre CAHUC is professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique. He is director of the Macroeconomic Laboratory of ENSAE-CREST and research fellow at CEPR, and a former member of the French Economic Advisory Council to the French Prime Minister. He also joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999 and, since 2004, he has been IZA Program Director for "Labor Markets and Institutions”.

Unemployment and the microfoundations of macroeconomics with a special concern for labor market are his main fields of research. His papers are published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal or Economics, the International Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Public Economics, Economics Letter, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, the Review of International Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and other journals.

Bea CANTILLON is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She has published widely and internationally on a wide range of issues relating to poverty, social policy, social security, the welfare state, and gender. She has acted as a consultant to, among others, the OECD, the European Commission and the Belgian government. Next to being the Chair of the National Administration for Family Allowances, she also served as a Belgian senator (1995-1999) and was the president of the National Reform Commission on the Belgian Social Security for independent workers (2000-2002). Prof. Cantillon is Secretary-General of the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security, President of the Social Security Association - Belgian Department and a member of the general board of EQUALSOC. As of 2003 she is also a Fellow of the Royal Belgian Academy. Prof. Cantillon served as a Chair of the General Assembly UFSIA (2002-2003) and as vice-president of the University of Antwerp (2004-2008). The Centre for Social Policy, linked to Prof. Bea Cantillon, has been recognized as a Centre of Excellence under the Flemish Methusalem program, granting substantial long-term structural financing to support internationally recognized scientific research.

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Tim CLODE is a professional statistician with twenty years experience working with official statistics, specialising in the fields of international relations, statistical conferencing, measurements of staff perception, UK national statistics, business registers, statistical training and consultancy, and international statistical capacity building.

Françoise CROUÏGNEAU is the Vice-president of Ajef (French Association of Economic and Financial Journalists) she has held positions as the Editor of the newspaper, les Echos, and the Head of international economics for the newspaper Le Monde. She holds a Degree in Sociology and a Masters in Communication.

Daniel DAIANU Professor of economics, The School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest; former member of the European Parliament (2007-2009); Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Banca Comerciala Romana (2005-2007); Finance Minister of Romania, 1997/1998; Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania, 1992-1997; Deputy Minister of Finance, 1992; member of the Romanian Academy; member of the European Council on Foreign Relations; visiting professorships at Berkeley, UCLA, Bologna University, etc. Honorary President of the Romanian Association of European Studies; Member of the Black Sea Region Commission. author of “Which Way Goes Capitalism?”, CEU Press, Budapest/New York, 2009; ‘The Macroeconomics of EU Integration: The Case of Romania”, Rosetti Educational, Bucharest, 2008; with Radu Vranceanu (ed.), Ethical Boundaries of Capitalism”, Ashgate (UK), 2005; with Thanos Veremis (ed.), “Balkan Reconstruction”, London, Frank Cass, 2001; “Transformation As A Real Process”, Aldershot (UK), Ashgate, 1998; “Economic Vitality and Viability. A Dual Challenge for European Security” Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 1996

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Michele DAU is the Deputy Secretary general of CNEL - National Council of Economy and Labour (from 1997), a constitutional public Institution as well as the Vice Chair Of OECD - LEED Committee (from 2003) and the Deputy Secretary general of AICESIS (International association of Economic and Social Councils) (from 2009). He holds a degrees in “urban history” from Roma University (1975) and a Ph.D. in economic planning (1978). He studied at London School of Economics “economic and social globalisation”. He has held previous posts as a researcher at the CENSIS Foundation, a professor at Roma University as well as the Vice President of ITALIA LAVORO and an advisor for the Infrasturcture Minister.

Nicola DE MICHELIS is the Deputy Head of Cabinet of Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Regional Policy, he has held previous positions in the European Commission as the head of economic analysis unit in the regional policy DG as well as an official in the DG external relations, Asia directorate. Mr De Michelis holds a degree in economics from the University of Modena.

Lewis DIJKSTRA is the Deputy Head of the Analysis Unit in the Directorate-General for Regional Policy of the European Commission. He is responsible for the Cohesion Reports and the development of new regional and urban indicators. For his work he has initiated joint projects with Eurostat, the OECD, the Joint Research Centre, the World Bank and the European Environmental Agency. He has published articles on issues such as regional quality of government, regional competitiveness, labour mobility, metropolitan regions, patterns of economic growth and urbanisation. He holds a PhD in Urban and regional planning.

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Martine DURAND was appointed Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD in 2010. Formally OECD Deputy-Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, she currently oversees all of the OECD’s statistical activities and is responsible for providing strategic orientation for the Organisation’s statistical policy. She is also responsible for OECD work on the measurement of well-being and the progress of societies. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and publications in the area of international competitiveness, pensions, labour markets and international migration. She graduated in mathematics, statistics and economics from the Paris VI University, Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gerard J. EDING is currently the director of National Accounts at Statistics Netherlands. He studied macro-economics and regional economics at the University of Groningen [Cum Laude]. Before his position as director of National accounts Gerard worked in various [management] positions in different areas within Statistics Netherlands, such as Government Finance Statistics, Business Statistics and Social and Spatial Statistics. He also worked as a researcher at the University of Groningen and as a consultant for a [semi-] private research institute TNO Inro, working on regional and transportation economic issues.

Hubert ESCAITH is the World Trade Organization's Chief Statistician. In this function, he supervises the compilation, analysis and dissemination of trade and market access data. The work includes research and development activities on methodological issues related to the monitoring of international trade and trade policies. Before joining the WTO in 2006, he worked for the United Nations, first in the Middle East, then in Latin America and the Caribbean, where he held various positions related to statistics, macroeconomics, trade and economic development aspects. He holds a Doctorate in Mathematics Applied to Economics from the University of Toulouse (France) and a Master from ESSEC Business School (Paris-Cergy, France).

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John EVANS is General Secretary of the Paris-based Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC - www.tuac.org).

Education: 1973, Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford.

Former posts including positions with: the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels; International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees, Geneva; and Economic Department, Trades Union Congress, London.

Past not-for profit board positions including the Global Reporting Initiative and the Helsinki Group.

Currently, Member: Comité Médicis, Amundi; Conseil d'Orientation, IDDRI.

Vice-Chair, World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Employment and Social Protection.

Glenn EVERETT, Programme Director, Measuring National Well-being. Career statistician. Initial career in Australian Bureau of Statistics working on range of outputs from social (eg Population Census) to economic statistics (eg labour market). Moved to UK early 1990s and joined Employment Department in London as a statistician. Moved to the (then) Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) as senior statistician to lead Structural Fund review and develop regional statistics. Promoted in 2000 to Director and Chief Adviser on Statistics at DTI. Joined the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 2005 to be Programme Director for Allsopp programme developing statistics for economic policy. At completion of programme, became head of Neighbourhood Statistics Services Programme to mainstream development work and fully relocate relevant staff from London to ONS's Titchfield office. Relocated to Newport from London in 2010 to head National Accounts. Appointed Programme Director for Measuring National Well-being 1 April 2012.

Donatella FAZIO is Head of the European R&D Projects Unit in the Directorate of Development of Information Systems and Corporate Products, Information Management and Quality Assessment of Istat - Italian National Institute of Statistics. University Degree in Statistics and Demography she has 24 years work experience in Istat. Senior expert in European research policies in the statistical field. Presently Project Manager of two FP7 projects led by Istat, funded by the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, Theme 8, Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities: BLUE-ETS- Enterprise and Trade Statistics (GA 244767- research project based on a consortium of 14 partners, duration 1 April 2010-31 March 2013) and e-Frame- European Framework for Measuring Progress (GA 290520- coordinating and support actions project, based on a consortium of 19 partners, duration 1 January 2012-30 June 2014). Extensive statistical expertise in the fields of territorial statistics, Census, demographic and economic surveys. Great experience in coordination, she played the roles of Head of unit, Head of division, gaining great experience in the management of complex projects related to official statistical information. Coordinator of activities for the dissemination and communication of official statistical research and data.

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Michael F. FÖRSTER is a senior analyst at the OECD Social Policy Division. He has been involved in successive OECD work on income distribution and poverty since the mid-1990s. He is co-author of “Growing Unequal?” (OECD 2008) and “Divided we Stand” (OECD 2011) and is currently directing several follow-up projects to these studies. Author of various journal articles, research papers and book contributions, Mr. Förster is an Austrian citizen and holds a Ph.D. from University of Liège, Belgium.

Enrico GIOVANNINI. President of Istat since August 4th, 2009. He is President of the Statistical Advisory Board for the Human Development Report of the United Nations, Member of the Partnership Group of the European Statistical Committee and Chairman of the Board of the World Bank International Project for the measurement of purchasing power parity. From January 2001 to July 2009, he was Chief Statistician and Director of the Statistics Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he designed and implemented a thorough reform of the statistical system, organised the "World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Politics" and launched the Global Project on the "Measurement of Progress in Society". He has authored numerous publications and has been a member of important national and international committees, such as the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Committee, established by the French President Nikolas Sarkozy. He has also been President of the Global Council of the World Economic Forum on the "Evaluation of Societal Progress". For his work on the measurement of social welfare, in 2010, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the President of the Republic by the Pio Manzù International Centre and became a member of the Club of Rome. He is full professor of statistical economics at University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

Anne-Catherine GUIO works for CEPS/Instead in Luxembourg and is involved in « Second Network for the analysis of EU-SILC » (Net-SILC2) that regroups European National Statistical Institutes, Universities and Research Centrum working on EU-SILC data.

Her research interests are related to poverty and social inclusion field and more specifically to the development and the analysis of poverty and deprivation indicators. She has been involved in different working group on social indicators at the Belgian level and at the European level. Between 2002 and 2006, she worked as a national expert in Eurostat on poverty and deprivation indicators.

She worked on the methodology of the material deprivation indicators adopted at the EU level in 2009 and used in the Europe 2020 strategy and currently works on the revision of these EU deprivation indicators.

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Edgar HERTWICH is director of the Industrial Ecology Program at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on global production-consumption relationships, including emissions associated with international trade and with different consumption patterns, as well as on the assessment of environmental and resource implications of climate mitigation. He currently serves as a member of the International Resource Panel, where he directed a study on Priority Products and Materials, and as a Lead Author of the 5

th assessment

report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is a co-author of the Carbon Footprint of Nations.

Rutger HOEKSTRA is a senior statistical researcher in the department of national accounts of Statistics Netherlands. Presently he leads, together with his colleague Jan Pieter Smits, the UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Taskforce for Measuring Sustainable Development. He is also co-chair of the Consortium Management Board of the E-frame consortium and was member of the advisory board of the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) project (both FP7 projects).

Rutger Hoekstra graduated from Wageningen University and did his PhD in environmental economics at the Free University of Amsterdam. He has worked at Statistics Netherlands since 2003.

At Statistics Netherlands, Rutger Hoekstra has led a variety of project on tourism, productivity and the knowledge economy. In the last 5 years has worked on the Sustainability Monitor for the Netherlands.

Rutger has published numerous scientific articles, book chapters, conference papers, working papers and a book ("Economic growth, material flows and the environment: New applications of structural decomposition analysis and physical input-output tables", Edward Elgar Publishers, 2005).

Agnès HUBERT has been an adviser in the Bureau of European Policy advisers since 2005. the mission of BEPA is to provide the President and his college of Commissioners with strategic thinking and policy advice .

Before joining BEPA, Agnes Hubert - a graduate in Economics (Bsc and DEA) and in Political Science (DEA) of the University of Paris 1 - has held responsibilities in Development & cooperation, communication and social & employment policy (head of the Unit Equal Opportunities for Women), contributed to the White paper on European Governance and was seconded for 2 years to the European Parliament.

In BEPA she is a member of the analysis team and has held responsibility for reports on Social Innovation, Youth, Migration and Gender.

She has a specific expertise in the fields of gender, social and employment policy and fundamental rights. She is the author of two books (“L'Europe et les femmes, identités en mouvement”, ed. Apogée, and “Democracy and Information Society in Europe”, in Forward Studies series – Kogan page) and of numerous articles and academic contributions in the field of gender equality and European integration.

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Tim JENKINS directs the Great Transition Initiatives work at nef including integration of all programme work, movement building and public campaigning work, and the development of a new macro-economic model.

Previously Tim was Policy Director at Friends of the Earth and Head of Sustainable Economies at the Sustainable Development Commission. He is also a founder Director of the Aldersgate Group.

Tim has researched and published work on a range of issues including the employment impacts of environmental policies, environmental taxation and innovation. His PhD examined the relationship between environmental regulations and innovation.

Jeni KLUGMAN is the Director of Gender and Development at the World Bank Group. In her current role, she acts as lead spokesperson for gender equality issues, and is responsible for promoting the institution’s gender and development priorities following the release of the 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development. She currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Benchmarking Progress and Advisory Board on Sustainability and Competitiveness, and is a fellow of the Human Development and Capabilities Association.

Prior to taking up this position in August 2011, Ms. Klugman was the director and lead author of three global Human Development Reports published by the United Nations Development Programme: Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development (2009); The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development (2010); and, Sustainability and Equity: a Better Future for All (2011). From 1992-2008, she held various positions at the World Bank, focusing in particular on poverty, inequality and human development in low income countries in Africa, Europe and Asia.

Ms. Klugman has published a number of books, papers and reports on topics ranging from poverty reduction strategies and labour markets to conflict, health reform, education and decentralization. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Australian National University, as well as postgraduate degrees in Law and Development Economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

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Orsolya LELKES is a Senior Research Fellow at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (Vienna) since March 2005. Her main fields of expertise include research on poverty across countries, social inclusion, social impact of tax- and benefit policies, and subjective well-being. From 2002 to 2005 she was in charge of setting up a new research unit at the Ministry of Finance in Hungary, and was member of the Economic Policy Committee (EPC). She holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics.

Yves LETERME was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD on 8 December 2011. He is in charge of Social Affairs, Education, Governance and Entrepreneurship.

Before joining the OECD, Yves Leterme held a variety of political posts in Belgium at all levels and in all areas of government. After starting his career as an alderman in his home town of Ypres, he became a Deputy in the Chamber of Representatives, Group Chairman, National Secretary and Chairman of the CD&V party, Minister-President of the Flemish Government, Federal Senator, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Budget and Mobility, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister. Yves Leterme is currently Minister of State and a municipal councillor in Ypres.

At a professional level, Yves Leterme has worked, inter alia, as a deputy auditor at the Belgian Court of Audit and an administrator at the European Parliament.

Yves Leterme, who was born on 6 October 1960, has a degree in Law and Political Science from the University of Ghent.

Denis LEYTHIENNE graduated from ENSAE (French National School of Statistics) and from the universities of Paris and Grenoble before joining the European Commission in 1992. He has worked at Eurostat since 1999 where he was in charge of developing European quarterly and annual sector accounts in cooperation with the European Central Bank. Mr Leythienne has coordinated the work of the taskforce 'Household Perspective' that studied how the European Statistical System could implement the recommendations of the Stiglitz/Sen/Fitoussi Commission in the field of economic statistics.

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Jean-Louis LHERITIER is currently head of Consumer Prices, Household Resources and Living Conditions Department in Insee: CPI, Statistics on Income, Personal Wealth, Housing, Household Budget, Time Use, Deprivation, Crime and Victimisation, Homeless, ICT.

From 2003 to 2007, He was in charge of European and Multilateral Relations of Insee. He participated in the implementation of the new statistical governance in Europe, especially the European Code of Practice.

Previously, He was in charge of External Trade Statistics in the French Custom Administration.

Gang LIU is an Economist/Statistician at the OECD statistics directorate, is currently leading the OECD human capital project that aims to measure human capital for comparative analysis both across countries and over time. The project is in the form of an international consortium, consisting of eighteen countries and two international organizations.

Stéfan LOLLIVIER is the Inspecteur Général of the Insee (French Institute of Statistics) and has held various posts in the Institute since 1994. He was also the Director of the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE) from 1999 to 2004. He is a a co-chairman of the European Task Force about Quality of Life in charge of the implementation of the Stiglitz recommendations as well as a member of the scientific Council of the INED. He holds degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique (ENSAE).

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Radek MALÝ is the Head of Unit for Social Analysis in the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. He has worked for the European Commission since 2005, before his current post he was heading the Employment Analysis Unit. Prior to this, he has worked a number of years in the financial sector as an economist for Citibank in the Czech Republic. He has also acted as an external advisor to the Office of the Czech President Vaclav Havel. He has graduated from the Prague School of Economics (Labour Economics) and the Oxford University (European Politics and Society). He is married with two children.

Robert MANCHIN is the Managing Director of The Gallup Organisation Europe and director of the Institute for Advanced Behavioral Studies.

As a social scientist, Robert Manchin began his career at the Institute of Sociology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, where he was the head of the Quality of Life Research Unit.

He is a veteran in the field of survey research having been participated in the first large-scale comparative East-West time budget survey in the sixties as an intern and have conducted hundreds of surveys since related to quality of life and well-being.

At Gallup he developed the methodology and was responsible for the Flash Eurobarometer project as well as running large-scale comparative survey projects. Among others he is at present in charge of WorldPoll in Europe.

Antonio MARZANO is the Honorary President of the AICESIS (International Association of the Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions).

He has been confirmed President of the Italian Council for Economy and Labour (CNEL) with DPR (Decree of the President of the Republic) dated 28

th July 2010.

Member of the promoting Committee for the celebrations of the centenary of Confindustria (2010)

July 2009-July 2011 President of the AICESIS

Former Minister for Productive Activities (2001 – 2005) and Member of Parliament (1996-2005)

Antonio Marzano has been full professor of Economic and Financial Politics at the faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Rome (since 1974) and professor of Economic Policies at the LUISS University of Rome (since 1978).

Former chairman of the faculty of Economics and Trade at the Abruzzo University (1968-1971), director of the Institute for Economic, Financial and Statistical Studies at the faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Rome (1974-1980), and professor of History and Monetary

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Policies at the same faculty (1971-1974).

He has been member of the CNEL (Italian Council for Economy and Labour) as an expert, member of the Committee for the privatisations (Draghi Committee at the Treasury Ministry) and member of the Warranty Commission on Statistical Information (Presidency of the Council of Ministers).

He has been member of the board of numerous companies, among which Agip Nucleare, Cassa di Risparmio di Roma, Banca di Roma and Banco di Sicilia. He has been President of the COFIRI.

He has been called to be part of various organisms, among which: the Commission for the general report on the economic situation of the country, at the Ministry for the Budget; the study Commission on public debt, at the Treasury Ministry; the Committee for mid-term industrial policies, at the European Economic Commission; the Committee for economic planning, at the Ministry for the Budget; the Committee for the high consultancy on the productivity and the efficiency of the public expenditure, at the Treasury Ministry; the scientific Council for the programming of electric energy (ENEL)

Liviana MATTONETTI has more than 14 years of experience in National Accounts as well as 4 years in social statistics gained at both Eurostat and at Istat. Currently she is a member of the Eurostat Laboratory for developments in cross cutting statistical domains where she is responsible for the project "Reconciliation of macro and micro data sources on households' economic resources" and acts as the co-secretariat of the joint OECD-Eurostat Expert Group on "Disparities in a National Accounts framework". At Eurostat she has also worked in the ESSPROS field. At Istat, she was in charge of Quarterly National Accounts for General Government in the National Accounts Directorate.

Marco MIRA D'ERCOLE is Head of the Division for Household Statistics and Progress Measurement in the Statistics Directorate at the OECD, and was previously the Counselor in the same Directorate. He has worked on measures of well-being, on income distribution and on various aspects of social policies He was editor of the 2010 edition of the OECD Factbook and of the 2005 and 2007 editions of Society at a Glance – OECD Social Indicators and was among the main contributors of the OECD report Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, 2008. He has been one of the “rapporteurs” of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress established by President Sarkozy in early 2008. Since joining the OECD he has worked in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, in the Economics Department and in the Private Office of the OECD Secretary General, as well as spending two years at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Modena and a M.Phil from Oxford University.

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Guillaume MORDANT is the Deputy director of the Observation and Statistics Directorate of the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy since 2010, Guillaume Mordant has worked previously at the French National Statistical Institute Insee as head of unit in charge of International affairs, and previously as head of the Quarterly National Accounts division. His first positions in business statistics analysis and as head of the regional studies and dissemination division in La Reunion Regional office complete his experience and practice as a statistician and economist.

Fabrice MURTIN is an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and a lecturer in international economic policy at Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Po Paris). A French national, he completed his PhD at Paris and London Schools of Economics and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University prior to joining the OECD. His research has focused on the long-term dynamics of economic development and on labour market issues. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the European Commission, and has published several articles in academic journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Journal of Human Capital, Economica or the Journal of Development Studies.

Heinz-Herbert NOLL is head of the Social Indicators Research Centre of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim, Germany. He graduated in sociology, economics and statistics at the University of Frankfurt a.M. and has received his doctorate at the University of Mannheim. He has taught sociology at the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim and courses on social indicators and quality of life at various European universities. H.-H. Noll has published widely on topics related to social indicators, well-being and quality of life, social inequality and trends of social change in international comparison. He was President of the Research Committee “Social Indicators” of the International Sociological Association as well as of the “International Society for Quality of Life Studies”. He is currently a member of thee-Frame project.

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Stephen PENNECK joined the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in 1997 and became Director General in 2009. He has wide experience as a government statistician, initially in economic statistics, and more lately heading the Surveys and Administrative Sources directorate. Prior to becoming Director General, Stephen had responsibility for methodological advice to the ONS and the Government Statistical Service (GSS), including advice to the National Statistician on quality, standards, best practice, surveys, administrative sources, analysis and the Census.

As Director of Surveys and Administrative Sources, he had responsibility for all ONS surveys and for their outputs, including the Consumer Price Index, the Labour Force Survey, and business surveys feeding the National Accounts.

Previously, Stephen provided policy advice to the former National Statistician, Len Cook and, in 2002, he completed a five-month secondment to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Earlier jobs include heading the National Accounts division in ONS, and Chief Adviser on Statistics at the Department of Trade and Industry. Stephen has also worked on statistical research and at the Office of Fair Trading.

Stephen studied for his BSc in Economics and Statistics at Southampton University and has an MSocSc in Econometrics from Birmingham University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Chartered Statistician. Stephen is currently President Elect of the International Association of Official Statistics, and has published articles in Economic Trends and Statistical News.

Wolfgang PETRITSCH, Ambassador of Austria to the OECD in Paris. Studied history, politics, int’l relations at Vienna University and USC Los Angeles. PhD in South Eastern European history 1972.

1977-1983 Press Secretary, Chief of Cabinet to Austrian Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky

1983-1992 Diplomatic posts in Paris (OECD) and New York.

1997/1998, Ambassador to the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 1998/99, EU Special Envoy for Kosovo and EU chief negotiator at the Kosovo peace talks in Rambouillet and Paris. 1999 - 2002 International High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. 1999 - 2001 Chair of the Succession Commission for the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

From 2002 to 2008 Ambassador Petritsch represented his country at the UN, the Conference on Disarmament and WTO in Geneva; 2003 - 2005 Chair of the Mine Ban Treaty and President of the Nairobi Summit on a Mine Free World. 2004-2005 Chair of the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

Mr. Petritsch is the Chair of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), Amsterdam; the Center for European Integration Strategies (CEIS), Geneva; the Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation (KIIC), Vienna; and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Vienna.

Mr. Petritsch is the recipient of the 2006 European Human Rights Award, Strasbourg.

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Mario PIANTA is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Urbino and is a member of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy’s Academy of Sciences. He has been Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute; visiting fellow at the London School of Economics; visiting fellow at the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has a Ph.D. from the LSE and was research fellow in 1986-87 at Columbia University, New York.

He has worked on economic growth, wellbeing, inequality and innovation; he has directed research projects for the European Commission and the JRC-IPTS Seville, and has participated in projects for the EU, the OECD, the ILO, UNRISD, the LSE, the Bank of Italy and the Italian Ministry of Research. He has published more than thirty articles in international journals and twenty-five chapters in edited books in English. His latest books are Global justice activism and policy reform in Europe (editor, with P. Utting and A. Elleskirk, Routledge, 2012) and Nove su dieci. Perché (quasi) tutti gli italiani stanno peggio di 10 anni fa (Laterza, 2012). http://works.bepress.com/mario_pianta

Walter RADERMACHER is the Director General of Eurostat and Chief Statistician of the European Union. He has held various positions in the German Federal Statistical office including those of Vice-President, and President. He holds degrees in Business Economics from Aachen and Münster.

Joachim RECKTENWALD is Head of the 'Labour Market' Unit at Eurostat. Prior to that, he was Head of Unit in national accounts. Before joining the European Commission (Eurostat) he was a member of the scientific staff of the Council of Economic Experts in Germany.

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Alessandra RIGHI is an Economic demographer, Senior Researcher working at Italian National Statistical Institute (Istat) in Rome. She is head of the Human Capital and Social Capital Accounting Project (Directorate of National Accounting).She has been responsible for different surveys like the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP) and before she has been charged for Vital statistics. She has developed researches in demographic and economic fields in different European and Italian institutions (Italian NCR, Italian National Council for Economics and Labour, IIASA).

Author of several publications in books, international/national journals and review on the economic and social consequences of demographic trend, on human capital and on social capital. She teaches Demography at the European University of Rome.

Tommaso RONDINELLA is a Researcher at Istat – Secretariat to the Presidency, he has a long experience in the measurement of wellbeing collaborating with both university and civil society organization. He is nominated by Istat as delegate in the Support Group within “BES” the Istat-CNEL initiative for the measurement of Equitable and Sustainable Well-being in Italy. He is part of Istat’s staff on e-Frame project.

Among his previous experiences, he worked for the Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, on the Barometer of effective quality of public services. From 2004 to 2010 he was policy officer at Lunaria, coordinating research activities of Sbilanciamoci! Campaign on Italian Budget Law. In 2006 he contributed to the current definition of the QUARS – Index of Regional Quality of Development. In 2010 he coordinated a national roundtable for a better use of indicators in Italian public policies (“Benessere e sostenibilità”). He has been Member of the Working Group for a Guide on “Involving citizens/communities in measuring and fostering wellbeing and progress” at OECD and Council of Europe.

He holds a degree in Statistical Sciences at University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and a master degree in “Globalization, development and cooperation” at University of Barcelona.

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Ulla ROSENSTRÖM is a Senior Adviser at the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office. She currently leads a project for the development of well-being indicators for Finland as part of the work on the Government Foresight Report. She takes part in the monitoring of the implementation of the Government Programme and, as representative of the Prime Minister’s Office, steers the development and content of the national Findicator.fi service. She also runs the national indicator expert network. An expert in the development and presentation of sustainable development indicators, Dr Rosenström has conducted pioneering work on researching the use of sustainable development indicators. Before her current position, she worked for more than ten years for the Finnish Environment Institute. Besides being responsible for the national SDI programme, she has taken part in several international working groups in her field.

Linda Laura SABBADINI (born in Rome) was appointed Department Director for Social and Environmental Statistics.

In Italy, before the definition of European and international standards and making a real information revolution, since 1990 she guides the radical renovation process in the area of social and gender statistics, planning and carrying out surveys of great social relevance about living conditions and quality of life. She starts the renewal of environmental statistics. Her highly innovative role at national and international level has been awarded by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, on 8 March 2006, which conferred her the honor of Commander of the Republic.

She was a member of several high level groups at the UN and at the European Commission in the area of social and gender statistics. Author of many scientific papers and monographs, for many years she was the expert of the National Commission For Parity and of the Commission on Poverty as well as several other important institutional committees.

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Carlos SÁNCHEZ-MUÑOZ has been working on central banking statistics for 20 years, first at Banco de España and since 1999 at the European Central Bank (ECB). At present, Carlos is Deputy Head of the Statistics Development and Coordination Division at the ECB. He is leading the unit in charge of developing new euro area statistical projects, among which the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey.

Stefano SCARPETTA is Deputy Director in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD. He is also the Editor of the OECD Employment Outlook, an annual publication which looks at labour market developments and prospects in OECD member countries.

Mr. Scarpetta joined the OECD in 1991 and held several positions in the Economics Department and in his current Directorate. He led several large-scale research projects, including: "Implementing the OECD Jobs Strategy"; the "Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries"; and contributed to others including “The Policy Challenges of Population Ageing" and “The Effects of Product Market Competition on Productivity and Labour Market Outcomes”. From 2002 to 2006 he worked at the World Bank, where he took over the responsibility of labour market advisor and lead economist. In this capacity, he coordinated a Bank-wide research program of Employment and Development and contributed extensively to the Bank's investment climate assessments. He was also one of the leading authors of a number of flagship publications of the Bank, including the World Development Report on "A Better Investment Climate -- For Everyone" (September 2004), the book on "Enhancing Job Opportunities in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union" (November 2005) and the book on “Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean” (June 2009).

He has published extensively in academic journals and edited several books in the fields of: labour economics and industrial relations; economic growth; and industrial organisation. He is the Deputy Director of the programme of work on Employment and Development at the Institute for the Studies of Labour (IZA, Bonn, Germany); Research Fellow of IZA; Member of the Executive Board of the CAED (Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data) network and member of the Scientific Committee of the DARES (French Ministry of Labour).

Mr. Scarpetta holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS), Département et Laboratoire d’Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA) in Paris and a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Edward SCICLUNA is a Member of the European Parliament and the Vice Chairman on its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He is also the European Parliament sole representative on European Statistical Advisory Committee. Throughout his career he has held appointments as Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Malta, Chairman of the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), Chairman of the Malta Council of Economic and Social Development (MCESD) and Electoral Commission in Malta. He has also acted as economic advisor to the IMF, UNESCO, Fitch, Standard & Poors, Moody's and served on the Council of Europe Development Bank Auditing Committee. Edward Scicluna graduated from the University of Oxford with a Diploma with distinction in politics and economics; from the University of Malta with a First Class Honours BA degree in Economics, and the University of Toronto with a Masters and Doctorate in Economics

Sjoerd SCHENAU started working at Statistics Netherlands in 2001 and started working on the Dutch environmental accounts in 2002. He is responsible as project manager for the compilation, publication and further development of the Dutch environmental accounts. He is a member of the London group and has been an active member of several Eurostat task forces. Recently, he has been working on the monitoring of Green Growth.

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Hans SCHMEETS is a senior researcher and program manager of social cohesion, well-being and perceptions at Statistics Netherlands. He also is a professor in Social Statistics at Maastricht University in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His main interests are survey methodology, election studies, quality of life surveys, ethnic minorities, issues related to religion, well-being, trust, social and political participation. He also works with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As a statistical analyst, he has participated in over 60 OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Missions from 1995 onwards.

Paul SCHREYER is Deputy Chief Statistician at the OECD. His personal research areas include the measurement of capital and productivity, the measurement of non-market activities and price statistics. He is the author of several OECD Manuals and has published books and articles in international journals. In 2008-09, he was rapporteur in the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. Since 2008, he has had a lead role in the OECD’s work on Green Growth Indicators.

Paul Schreyer joined the OECD in 1988. Before he was a research fellow at the IFO Institute for Economic Research in Munich Germany and an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Paul Schreyer studied at the Universities of Innsbruck and Birmingham (United Kingdom) and holds a Ph.D. in economics. He is of Austrian nationality.

Charles SEAFORD is Head of the Centre for Well-being at the new economics foundation in London. The Centre’s work focuses both on new measures of progress and on the policy implications of adopting well-being as an objective. Recent work from the Centre includes the Happy Planet Index: 2012 Report (a global index of sustainable well-being), Well-being Evidence for Policy: a Review, Measuring our Progress (presenting a framework for doing this), The Practical Politics of Well-being, and Human Well-being and Priorities for Policymakers. Previously he worked at the UK Sustainable Development Commission and in management consultancy. He co-founded Prospect, a current affairs magazine, has a BA from Oxford University and an MSc in Business Studies from the London Business School.

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Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Algirdas Gediminas ŠEMETA is a European Commissioner responsible for Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud. He has previously held positions as the Minister of Finance of Lithuania and the Director; General of the Department of Statistics under the Government of Lithuania.

Stanley SIEBERT gained his BA from the University of Cape Town, and his PhD from the LSE. He focuses on “personnel economics”, that is, factors affecting business decisions on employing and incentivising workers (articles in the Academy of Management Journal and Management Science). Related research examines business responses to labour market regulation including maternity/paternity leaves, age discrimination, and employment protection laws in a context of centralised wage setting (various IZA Discussion Papers). He is also the author of two texts on labour economics The Market for Labor: An Analytical Treatment (with John Addison) and The Economics of Earnings (with Solomon Polachek), and a survey of European labour regulation Labour Markets in Europe: Issues of Harmonisation and Regulation (with John Addison).

Martin SIECKER started his professional career in the early seventies as a journalist for ‘de Volkskrant’, a nationwide progressive newspaper in the Netherlands. In 1981 he joined the union for industrial workers as editor of the union magazine. In 2002 he joined the EESC, since then he is a member of the Consultative Committee for Industrial Change, the INT section, the NAT section (also responsible for sustainable development) and he has been a member of the Sustainable Development Observatory from the start in 2004 till 2010 when he moved to the Internal Market Observatory. He has been reporter for the first own initiative EESC-opinion on sustainable and social reporting.

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Marina SIGNORE is Research Director at Istat and Chief of Division “Metadata, Quality and R&D projects”. She is the Project Coordinator of the EC FP7 project e-Frame “European Framework for Measuring Progress” under whose coordination activities the current Conference on Measuring Well-Being and Fostering the Progress of Societies” is organised. She is responsible for Istat scientific coordination of Blue-Ets research project also funded by the EC under FP7. She is responsible for Istat Quality Policy and has participated in high level international groups on Quality such as UN Expert Group on National Quality Assurance Frameworks (2010 -2012); Eurostat Sponsorship on Quality (2009-2011); Eurostat LEG on Quality (1999-2001). She has been project leader of several Eurostat Grant Agreements also within the framework of the European Statistical Training Program. She have been elected Scientific Secretary of the IASS (International Association of Survey Statisticians) for the period 2003-2005.

Conal SMITH currently works for the OECD statistics directorate, leading work on the development of international guidelines on the measurement of subjective well-being. He previously managed the Social Conditions group in Statistics New Zealand, where he oversaw the release of the first New Zealand General Social Survey. Before this worked as a manager in the Strategic Social Policy Group in the Ministry of Social Development where he was responsible for the production of the Social Report.

Jan-Pieter SMITS (1966) studied history at the Free University in Amsterdam and got his PhD in 1995 (‘Economic growth and structural change in the Dutch service sector). He was responsible for building a set of Historical National Accounts for the Netherlands, 1800-1921. For a couple of years he led a research group of economic historians and historians of technology in the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Dutch research school in economic and social history.

He was assistant professor at the Department of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen until june 2011 and now works as programme manager and senior statistical researcher at the department of macro economic statistics and Statistics Netherlands. His research focuses on the inter-relationship between technological development, institutional change and economic growth. Most of this work is based on historical national accounts. He also co-ordinated the datahub on Historical National Accounting of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre.

Recently his research is focusing on issues which are “Beyond GDP”. At Statistics Netherlands he leads a large research programme on sustainable development. With dr. R. Hoekstra (StatNeth) he was responsible for the publication of the first Sustainability Monitor of the Netherlands. Presently he leads (with Hoekstra) the Taskforce for Measuring Sustainable Development, a group in which the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission and Eurostat participate.

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Matthias TILL is presently heading the unit for Analysis and Projections in Statistics Austria’s Social Statistics Directorate. He has been working for about 14 years in statistics on poverty. His main fields of activity are the development of indicators and comparative and longitudinal analysis of European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU SILC). Matthias Till received his training as a sociologist at the University of Vienna and has a special interest in urban poverty dynamics, survey methodology, data integration and small area estimation.

Marcel TIMMER is professor of Economic Growth and Development at the University of Groningen and director of the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC). He participates in various international programs funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the European Commission in the areas of international comparisons of productivity, technological and structural change and economic growth. In the past years, he was co-leading three international research projects funded by the European Commission services involving large-scale consortia of research institutes worldwide. These include the EU KLEMS project, comparing patterns of growth in the European Union, Japan and the U.S. (2003-2008) and more recently the World Input-output Database (WIOD) project (2009-2012). The WIOD has developed new databases, accounting frameworks and models to increase our understanding of the socio-economic and environmental consequences of increasing global integration. He has been a consultant and advisor for various organisations including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, Japanese Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry (METI) and Statistics Netherlands. He has been associate managing editor of the Review of Income and Wealth and extensively published in national and international journals, including the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Policy and the Journal of Economic History. He is the lead author of the book Economic Growth in Europe published by Cambridge University Press.

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Jeroen VAN DEN BERGH is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, affiliated with the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology and the Faculty of Economics. In addition, he is professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at VU University Amsterdam. Previously, he was professor of Environmental Economics (1997-2007) and Professor of ´Nature, Water and Space´ (2002-2007) at VU University Amsterdam, and Member of the Energy Council of the Netherlands (2003-2007). His research is on the intersection of economics, environmental science and innovation studies. Work in recent years involves applications of behavioral and evolutionary economics and economic analysis of climate policy. He also published many articles on growth-versus-environment and the GDP paradox. He was awarded the Royal-Shell Prize 2002 and the IEC (Sant Jordi) Environmental Science Prize 2011. He is editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal "Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions".

Gosse VAN DER VEEN, born in 1958, was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Director General of Statistics Netherlands on 1 January 2004. Gosse van der Veen graduated with honours from the State University of Groningen where he studied macro-economics.

Before joining Statistics Netherlands, he worked at the Ministry of Housing and Environment (1983-1989) as Head of the Financial Policy Department of Public Housing. Between 1989 and 1995 he was Head-director and Inspector of Public Housing in the Province of Friesland and later Inspector for the North of The Netherlands. In 1995 he was appointed Secretary General and Head of the public administration of the Province of Friesland.

Throughout his career Gosse van der Veen has managed major organisational changes and was responsible for (economic) policymaking. He managed and co-ordinated major projects on a national scale, e.g. housing asylum seekers, modernising the ICT environment for the provinces and a contract between Northern and Central Government about economic and social development.

In his present job he has chaired, the European board “Partnership Group” in which European Statistical Agenda is prepaired. Nowdays he is chair of the UNECE / HLG-BAS High level group on Business Architecture Statistics and Co-chair of the European Sponsorship Group on Standardisation.

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Wim VAN NUNSPEET is currently director of socio-economic and spatial statistics at Statistics Netherlands in The Hague (Netherlands). He is a Dutch national and holds a degree in economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His previous positions at Statistics Netherlands include among others head of the department for National Accounts and deputy director of business statistics. He has recently been active in the European Statistical System Sponsorship Group on Measuring Progress, Well-Being and Sustainable Development and is currently a member of the joint OECD/Eurostat Expert Group on Disparities in a National Accounts Framework.

Jan Luiten VAN ZANDEN is professor of global economic history at Utrecht University and Honorary Maddison professor at Groningen University. He has published widely about long term institutional and economic changes in the world economy, in particular concerning Western Europe and Indonesia. He also set up a large data infrastructural project, Clio Infra, which aims at bringing together large datasets on the various dimensions of the development of the world economy between 1500 and 2010. Linked to this is the Maddison project, which continues the work on historical measures of economic growth in the world started by Angus Maddison. He is currently working on incorporating new measures of economic welfare, including agency and gender inequality, into our measures of development.

Clare WARD is one of seven Deputy Government Statisticians at Statistics New Zealand. Clare leads the Industry and Labour Statistics Group, a role she has been in since January 2011. The Industry and Labour Statistics Group works across government to lead the sectors of official statistics that cover micro-economic statistics; the performance of New Zealand’s firms and sectors of the economy; and work, knowledge, and skills. Clare joined Statistics New Zealand in 2007 as the Deputy Government Statistician, Organisation Direction after roles at the Tertiary Education Commission, the Ministry of Housing, and Housing New Zealand. Originally from England, Clare has a background in strategy, policy, research, programme development, monitoring, and investment management in the public sector, both in New Zealand and in the UK. Clare lives in Wellington with her partner Graham and her children, Meg and Seth.

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Kirsten WISMER is Director of Economic Statistics at Statistics Denmark since 2008. Before this she was Director of Social Statistics for 9 year. Through her career at Statistics Denmark she has mainly worked with labour market statistics and national accounts. She has a Master of Economics from the University of Copenhagen.

Oliver ZWIRNER is a Policy Officer, Indicators, statistics & beyond GDP in the Chief economist, Impact Assessment & Evaluation unit, DG Environment, European Commission. Economist and social scientist. Started his career with setting up environmental accounting and management systems in banks and insurance companies. Worked for some years in research as environmental economist and sociologist and project manager in the fields of water and biodiversity management. Joined the European Commission in 2005.