Dr. Carlo Cafiero is a senior statistician and economist at the FAO in Rome, Italy, where he leads the team in charge of producing food security and nutrition statistics at global, regional and country levels. He is also FAO focal point for the indicators used to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Target 2.1. Since he joined FAO in 2010, he has been continuously working on the revision, update and improvements of methods used to measure food insecurity. From 2012 he has led the “Voices of the Hungry” project, through which FAO created, tested and validated the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) as a global standard for the measurement of individual and household food insecurity.
He previously taught statistics and agricultural economics and policy at the Graduate School of Agriculture of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. His research interests have spanned risk management in agriculture, the econometrics of storable commodity prices and measurement issues in the fields of food security and nutrition. He received a PhD in agricultural and natural resource economics from the University of California at Berkeley, a Doctoral degree in agricultural policy from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy and a Masters of Science degree in agricultural economics from the University of Arizona.