Biography
Ms. Francesca Grum is the Chief of the Social and Gender Statistics Section of the United Nations Statistics Division. She is leading the work of two UN Expert Groups established by the UN Statistical Commission to develop methodological standards to measure and advance statistics on International Migration and on Time-use and Unpaid Domestic and Care Work. She oversees the UN Global Gender Statistics Programme, including the preparation of the UN World’s Women: Trends and Statistics reports and the implementation of the Evidence and Data for Gender Equality (EDGE) project.
Ms. Grum has been working on methodological, analytical and capacity development activities related to demographic and social statistics since 2000 when she joined the UN Statistics Division in New York. Prior to the UN, Ms. Grum worked for several years in Spain, France and Italy as a dataminer and statistical advisor on big data projects including at SAS Institute working on banking and mobile phone data. Francesca holds a Master’s degree in Economic and Actuarial Statistics from the University of Padua, Italy.