Esperanza Magpantay is the Senior Statistician at the ICT Data and Analytics division of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), where she has worked since December 2000. She oversees and contributes to the collection, harmonization, and dissemination of ICT statistics and represents the ITU in various international initiatives and working groups, including the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development and the UN Inter-agency Expert Group on SDG Indicators. Ms. Magpantay leads the UN-Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN-CEBD) Task Team on mobile phone big data, collaborating with over 50 experts from international and regional organizations, national statistics offices, and research entities.
She has represented the ITU at numerous international meetings, such as the UN Statistical Commission, the UN World Data Forum, and the International Conferences on Big Data, delivering presentations and trainings on ICT statistics. Before joining the ITU, she spent 7 years at the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva as a statistical officer. Ms. Magpantay holds a Master’s degree in Business Analytics and Big Data from IE University in Madrid, Spain, and a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of the Philippines.