Elisa Benes
Head of the Rights, Migration and Skills Statistics Unit, Statistics Department, International Labor Organization (ILO)
Elisa M. Benes is the Head of the Rights, Migration and Skills Statistics Unit in the Statistics Department of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. She oversees statistical work in these areas and leads the ILO's standard-setting efforts on international labour migration statistics. In previous roles at the ILO, she led the revision and adoption of the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) standards on work, employment, and labour underutilization—now the global reference for labour force and unpaid work statistics. She also launched the ILO's initiatives on volunteer work and unpaid care work statistics, and its labour force survey (LFS) modularization tools.
Before joining the ILO in 2008, Ms. Benes worked at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva and the UN Statistics Division in New York, supporting international programs on gender, social, and demographic statistics. She has extensive experience in household survey methodology, gained through positions in the private sector and academia. She holds a PhD in Sociology with a specialization in Population Studies from Brown University, USA.