A new Deputy Executive Secretary at the
United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe
Geneva, 4 September 2001
Mr. Paolo Garonna has been appointed Deputy Executive
Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva
(UNECE), effective 1 August 2001.
Mr. Garonna, Italian, has been Professor of Applied Economics
at the University of Padua, Faculty of Statistics. He studied in Italy, in the
United States as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Denver, and in the
United Kingdom at Cambridge University. He had an academic and research career
and taught in Italy and in various European Universities. He was Deputy Director
for Education Employment and Social Affairs at the OECD in Paris from 1988 to
1992, and then Director General of the Italian National Statistical Institute in
the 1990’s. He joined the UN in 1999 as Director of the Statistical Division
of the UNECE.
Mr. Garonna was economic advisor to the Italian Government in
many Ministries, and in the Prime Minister Office, and acted as a consultant to
other European governments and the European Commission. Vice-president, and then
President of the Conference of European Statisticians from 1993 to 1999, he is
member or Fellow of various statistical and economic associations. He has been
in the Board of the Aspen Institute Italia and of various scientific and policy
Journals and Reviews.
He has written many books and articles on economic policy and
official statistics, and is a well known expert in labour and social policy
issues.
For further information please contact the UNECE Information Unit, Palais des
Nations,
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, Tel: (+41 22) 917 44 44, Fax: (+41 22) 917 05
05, E-mail: [email protected]
Ref: ECE/GEN/01/22