BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 1991

CAMILO DAGUM

Camilo Dagum is a Doctor in Economic Science by the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Bologna (Italy) and by the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, and Medal of the College of France.

Author of books on Econometrics, Economics, Economic Statistics and Income Distribution, she has written over 100 articles, published in several languages, in specialised magazines such as Metron, Journal of Econometrics, etc.

She has been a lecturer at the Universities of Córdoba, Iowa, Mexico, París and Ottawa, research lecturer at the University of Rome, the London School of Economics and the College of France, as well as guest lecturer at the University of Milan.

She has contributed to the theory and models of wealth distribution, measuring inequalities, etc. She has taken part in numerous international congresses, guest speaker for universities in Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America.

She is an advisor to international, national and private institutions and an ordinary member of the International Statistics Institute and the International Sociology Institute.

VICENTE ANTON VALERO

Vicente Antón Valero, graduated in Economic Science (Quantitative Economics) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, won a Diploma in Statistics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is Facultative Statistician (National Accounting) at the National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, I.N.E).

Author of articles published in several languages on Economy, Economic Statistics, National and Regional Accounting, Input-Output Tables, etc.

He has collaborated on the econometric model HISPAI-Model at the Economics Faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has been a lecturer at the Departments of Econometrics and Statistics and Operative Research for the said Economic Science Faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

He is currently teaching a course on "An Introduction to National Accounting-Introducción a la Contabilidad Nacional" within the technical co-operation programmes of the General Office of International Technical Co-operation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In May 1991, as Deputy General Director of National Accounts, he left the I.N.E. to join the Ministry of the Economy and Treasury

At present, he is Deputy General Director of Sectorial Planning in the General Planning Office of the Ministry of the Economy and Treasury

In 1990 he became a permanent member of the GDP Management Committee in EUROSTAT.

LEOPOLD GRANQUIST

Leopold Granquist is employed at Statistics Sweden since August 1964 at Statistical Methods Unit of the Research and Development Department. During 1983-1989 Head of the Statistical Methods Group of the Department of Economic Statistics. Since August 1989, Senior Statistician at Statistical Methods Unit of the Research and Development Department and project leader of the Data Editing Project. Since 1990 Deputy Head of the Statistical Methods Unit. Most of the research and development work has been devoted to data editing issues.

Invited speaker/teacher to: UN Workshop on the Statistical Computing Project, Budapest, 1984; IBGE Workshop on Data Editing for Latin America, Rio de Janeiro, February 1990; Statistics Canada Symposium 90, Measurement and Improvement of Data Quality.