Measuring the SDGs

Interview with Steve Mac Feely

Geneva, October 5

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By Maya Plentz, Editor in Chief | The UN Brief

Maya Plentz - I was reading your papers and watching a very interesting presentation you gave a couple of years ago at the European Network of Statistics Professionals. I would like today to speak about the Road to Bern series of events, the preparatory conferences for the UN World Data Forum that takes place 19-21 October, online. The events were led by the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN Office, in Geneva. What is the main take away, what did you think, based on what we discussed on the last event, and in your published papers, what do you see is the way forward? I think you participated in a couple of events before?

Steve Mac Feely - I was the keynote speaker in the previous one. There are four Road to Bern sessions in Geneva. Different organizations have hosted these events, the first was hosted jointly by the World Health Organisation and World Meteorological Organisation, they invited me to give a…