Marco Mira d’Ercole, Head of Division, Household Statistics and Progress Measurement Division, OECD

Marco Mira d’Ercole is Head of the Division for Household Statistics and Progress Measurement in the Statistics Directorate of the OECD. He has worked on measures of well-being, income distribution and various aspects of social policies He was editor of the 2010 edition of the OECD Factbook and of the 2005 and 2007 editions of Society at a Glance – OECD Social Indicators and was among the main contributors of the OECD report Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, 2008. He has been one of the “rapporteurs” of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress established by President Sarkozy in early 2008 and one of the contributors of the 2011 Canberra Group Handbook on Household Income Statistics. Since joining the OECD he has worked in the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, in the Economics Department and in the Private Office of the OECD Secretary General, as well as spending two years at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Modena and a M.Phil from Oxford University.