Our highly knowledgeable team understands challenges faced by today’s world. We understand and address data challenges pertaining to national,regional and global indicators, and more broadly, SDG indicators.
Jose Miguel Guzman
President and Founder of NoBrainerData
Jose Miguel Guzman
President and Founder of NoBrainerData
Jose Miguel Guzman is a thought leader in the field of population dynamics and international development, with extensive experience in tackling the world’s biggest problems through data-driven approaches. He has championed the collection and use of population and health data to design, monitor and evaluate population and health programs globally. He has also contributed to strengthening the capacity of governments in more than 50 countries of Latin America, Africa and Asia through direct technical assistance and training. As part of this work, Jose Miguel has supported the development of new data collection, data analysis and data visualization approaches using census, surveys, and administrative data. His expertise is wide-ranging and includes the areas of demographic dynamics and poverty and climate change adaptation, ageing, global surgery indicators, sexual and reproductive health issues (family planning, maternal and child health, adolescent health). He was the recipient of the Laureate Award (2017 by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)) and a Diplôme d’Honneur en Démographie (2010) from the University of Montreal, where he got his PhD in Demography. During his career, Jose Miguel has worked with many prominent organizations, including the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN Regional Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) and the Demographic and Health Survey Program (DHS). He is now an affiliated researcher of the prestigious research and training center El Colegio de Mexico and Member of the Board of Trustees of HelpAge International.
Monica Villarreal
Co-Founder and COO of NoBrainerData
Monica Villarreal
Co-Founder and COO of NoBrainerData
Monica Villarreal brings to NoBrainerData significant experience working internationally and in the United States in both the non-profit and the corporate sectors. She has led projects for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN Regional Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC) and the Inter-American development Bank (IADB) in several Latin-American countries, in areas such as migrants’ rights, ageing, adolescents, gender and human rights. More recently, she worked for the legal team of Wells Fargo Corporate Trust. Monica holds a certificate in alternative conflict and dispute resolution and negotiation by the New York University (NYU), and she actively advises individuals and governments in these areas. As COO of NoBrainerData, she leads work in business operations and is responsible for the delivery of NoBrainerData’s products and services to its growing customer base. She also advises clients on issues related to data privacy, data anonymization and data laws and regulations. Monica holds a J.D. from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, in Mexico, as well as a postgraduate degree in International Law from the Université Paris 2 Panthéon Assas, in France. She recently earned with excellence an LL.M. Master of Laws in Business Law from the University of Maryland.
Meet the team of distinguished senior contributors to our blog:
Nikolai Botev
Visiting Scholar/Adjunct Faculty at the Institute of Demography and Department of Demography, HSE University, Moscow.
Nikolai Botev
Visiting Scholar/Adjunct Faculty at the Institute of Demography and Department of Demography, HSE University, Moscow.
Nikolai Botev is a visiting scholar/adjunct faculty at the Institute of Demography and Department of Demography, HSE University, Moscow. He started his career as a researcher at the Higher Institute of Economics in Sofia, Bulgaria, before moving on to work for the United Nations. Until his recent retirement from UN, he worked for the Population Fund (UNFPA), where among other things he was Director of the UNFPA office for Central Asia. Prior to that he was with the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), where he managed a data-collection and research project on population ageing, and coordinated a number of high level inter-governmental meetings. Nikolai Botev holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA). His professional and intellectual interests cover population and public policy (incl. the motivations, tools and outcomes of pronatalist policies), intermarriage and inter-group relations, population ageing and its social and economic implications, as well as historical demography and the theory of the demographic transition. He has published in journals like American Sociological Review, Population and Development Review, Population Studies, European Journal of Ageing, and has lectured in a number of academic institutions. Springer recently published his The Sexuality-Reproduction Nexus and the Three Demographic Transitions: An Integrative Framework (ISBN: 978-3-030-37555-3).
Diana E. Paez
Senior Director of Grants & Partnerships at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (U-M)
Diana E. Paez
Senior Director of Grants & Partnerships at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (U-M)
Diana E. Páez is Senior Director of Grants & Partnerships at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (U-M), an independent, non-profit research and educational organization working to help businesses thrive in low- and middle-income countries. In addition to leading the Institute’s business development efforts and overseeing grant-funded projects, Diana works to create value for businesses operating at the intersection of energy and mobility in emerging markets. Before joining WDI, she served as a Program Officer for the Higher Education for Development office of the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C.; a Program Manager for the National Democratic Institute; and a Public Sector Governance Consultant for The World Bank Institute. Proudly born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Diana has a JD in Law and Social Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, a Master’s degree in Public International Law from Université de Paris II, Panthéon Assas, and a Master’s degree in Prospective for International Studies from Université de Paris V, René Descartes. More recently, she completed a Foundations of Mobility Certificate from the University of Michigan College of Engineering. A passionate of international development, cross-cultural perspectives, and the power of serendipity, Diana enjoys learning, traveling, reading, and writing.
Jacques Veron
Demographer and Emeritus Senior Researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies.
Jacques Veron
Demographer and Emeritus Senior Researcher at INED.
Jacques VÉRON is a French demographer and emeritus senior researcher at INED. He has been head of International Affairs Department of INED ant then Deputy Director. He has been a member of the French delegation to the United Nations Population and Development Commission for more than ten years. His research focuses on the relationship between population, environment and development. He is also working on Indian population dynamics in collaboration with Indian demographers. He was member of the team of the first survey on international migrations from Punjab. He is now studying the impact of cyclones in the Odisha State. He has also a special interest on the history and the epistemology of demography. In addition to his articles, he has published a number of books: Démographie (1991), Arithmétique de l’Homme (1993), Population et développement (1994), Le Monde des femmes (1997), Leibniz et les raisonnements sur la vie humaine (2001), L’urbanisation du monde (2006). He has edited Ages, generations and the Social contract. The Demographic Challenges facing the Welfare State (2007) and is co-editor of the Handbook of Population and Environment to be published in 2020.
Sylvia Giorguli
President of El Colegio de México and a faculty member of the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies.
Silvia Giorguli
President of El Colegio de México
Silvia Giorguli is the president of El Colegio de México and a faculty member of the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies. Her research focuses on international migration from Mexico to the United States and its consequences on education, family formation, and family dynamics in both sides of the border and the transition to adulthood in Mexico and Latin America. She is co-researcher in the Mexican Migration Project. She received a PhD in Sociology from Brown University.
Daniel Schensul
Humanitarian Data and Risk Specialist for UNFPA’s Humanitarian Office
Daniel Schensul
Humanitarian Data and Risk Specialist for UNFPA’s Humanitarian Office
Daniel Schensul is Humanitarian Data and Risk Specialist for UNFPA’s Humanitarian Office. In this role he supports humanitarian work in high risk and emergency contexts in assessing and addressing risk and improving data and targeting for humanitarian preparedness and response. In this and prior roles, he has conducted extensive research on climate change risk and adaptation, as well as disaster vulnerability, including in Indonesia, Malawi, Maldives and the Caribbean. He also worked on research and policy in support of intergovernmental agreements and commitments the world’s governments have made related to population change, sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, climate change, humanitarian response and other areas. Dr. Schensul is co-editor of two books and has authored multiple papers on population issues and climate change, and has published on urbanization, sustainable development and demography. He received his BA from Columbia University and his PhD from Brown University.
Alexandre Sidorenko
Consultant on development of policy on demographic change and ageing. Advisor to governments on policies on ageing.
Alexandre Sidorenko
International Consultant on Policy and Programmes On Ageing
Dr. Alexandre Sidorenko is an international consultant on policy and programmes on ageing, including advisory services and training in Eastern European countries and countries of the former Soviet Union. His current assignments and duties: Member of the Societal Advisory Board of the EC Joint Programme Initiative “More years, better lives”; Global Ambassador for HelpAge International (London, United Kingdom); International tutor, International Institute on Ageing (UN-Malta); Member, Board of Trustees, World Demographic Association Forum Foundation (St. Gallen, Switzerland); Senior Advisor, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (Vienna, Austria). Previously, Alexandre Sidorenko was the Chief of the Population Unit, UN Economic Commission for Europe (2010); and Head of the United Nations Programme on Ageing (1988-2009). Dr. Sidorenko was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He received his early education in Ukraine. Dr. Sidorenko pursued graduate studies in medicine, obtaining a Ph.D. in cellular immunology. He was a lecturer at the Kyiv Medical University from 1975 to 1978 and had ten years’ experience in experimental gerontology at the Kyiv Institute of Gerontology, spanning from 1978 to 1988.
Terence Hull
Emeritus Professor of Demography at The Australian National University
Terence Hull
Emeritus Professor of Demography at The Australian National University
Terence (Terry) Hull is Emeritus Professor of Demography at The Australian National University. He was President of the Asian Population Association for the period 2013-2015 and from 2015-2018 serves on the APA Council as the Immediate Past President. Since 2001 he has been on the International Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights. Before retirement in 2013 he was Professor of Demography in the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI — now the School of Demography) and Adjunct Professor of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH). In the latter position, he held the JC Caldwell Chair in Population, Health and Development. In his position as Emeritus Professor he is attached to the School of Demography in the Research School of Social Sciences, the College of Arts and Social Sciences. In 2015 Hull was made a Technical Advisor for the University of Melbourne’s Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative, a four-year project to improve civil registration and vital statistics in twenty countries. His focus will be on Indonesia, but he will also assist with training and program assessment.
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