Samantha Watson
Senior Statistician, International Labor Organization (ILO)
Samantha is a Senior Statistician at the International Labour Organisation (ILO), a specialised agency of the UN. She is based in the Statistical Standards and Methods Unit, within the ILO Department of Statistics, where she is leading a new, five-year, programme of work to develop international statistical standards for official statistics on care work. Samantha developed the ILO's time-use measurement modules for national labour force surveys (LFS), and is part of a team convened to develop and refine survey methods to better capture and characterise informal employment in official statistics. She provides direct technical assistance, training, and capacity building to support the production of statistics on paid and unpaid care work, informality, and data to policy linkage.
Before joining the ILO in 2020, Samantha worked in academia and central government. She holds a PhD in Social Statistics (Political Economy route) from the University of Manchester, UK.