Petra Nahmias
Chief of the Population and Social Statistics Section, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
Petra Nahmias is Chief of Population and Social Statistics at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), where she leads regional efforts to strengthen national statistical systems, with a focus on civil registration and vital statistics, migration, gender and integrated social statistics. She has extensive experience in the UN system having led the statistical work at UNHCR and worked at the UN Population Division on fertility analysis, as well as previously working in national statistical offices. Petra holds a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University and an MA in Demography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.