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Development of Statistics
We support our customers to
enhance their ability to generate
and use quantitative information to
improve decision-making.
Statistics for Development
We provide our clients with the
relevant quantitative information
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driven decisions for business and
policy development.
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admin2020-10-28 10:38:002021-01-15 10:46:02European Statistical Training ProgrammeHow do we generate Business and Policy Intelligence?
- Data collection, harmonization and integration (internal, primary and secondary data)
- Analysis and visualization of quantitative information
- Design and implementation of statistical models to optimize decisionmaking
- Experimental behavioral analysis
- Accompaniment in integrating quantitative information in evidencedriven decision-making
- Support to enhance the ability of our clients to collect, analyze and use quantitative data
Our Team
DevStat provides technical assistance based on the expertise of its founding partners and a network of international collaborators. We have established a long-term partnership with a number of highly skilled and qualified experts, and our databases contain more than 500 statisticians and related specialists able to provide short-term expertise.
All of our experts have worked in Business and Policy Intelligence projects thought the world for well-known private owned business and governments.
JCervera
José L. Cervera Spanish
CEO
jcervera@devstat.com
José Luis (MSc Mathematics and Chartered State Statistician) has made a professional career during more than 20 years in Official Statistics (Spanish National Statistical Institute, Institute of Statistics of the region of Valencia) and statistical consulting for private and public institutions. He has been responsible for the implementation of household, business and institutions surveys on R&D, innovation, use of ICT, and participated in a large number of international working groups on statistics.
Specific topics of his technical expertise include development indicators, Science and Technology statistics, Information Society indicators and SME statistics (main author of the UNCTAD Manual for the Production of Statistics on the Information Economy).
His professional experience includes statistical capacity building activities (including training) in the Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa (Cape Verde), Latin America (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay), Asia (Kazakhstan, Korea, Thailand) and Central and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania), as a consultant for a number of international organizations including the European Commission, UNCTAD, ITU, PARIS 21, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
MBergamini
Monica Bergamini Italian
Consultant Statistician
mbergamini@devstat.com
Monica holds a degree in social and demographic statistics from the University of Bologna (Italy) and a master degree in economics and econometrics (Southampton University, UK). She currently works as international project consultant.
She started her professional career as an external consultant for Eurostat, where she contributed to the analysis of social data (social protection expenditure and receipts) sent by the Member States and the analysis of qualitative information associated with the data. She contributed to the development of a new data collection module on pensions’ beneficiaries..
At DevStat she has been in charge of managing several specific projects within the Framework Contract on Methodology and Research (Lot 2: Data Analysis) awarded by Eurostat as well as other EC funded projects, among those the EuropeAid FWC Beneficiaries LOT 11.
Her tasks include contacts with the Clients and the experts involved in the projects, revision of all reports and technical documents to be submitted and control that the milestones and deadlines are met.
CPrats
Clara Prats Spanish
Accountancy and finance
admin@devstat.com
Clara is Head of the Administration and Accounts Department at Devstat. She has 18 years’ experience working in both private companies and the public sector in the field of administration, accounts and human resources. She holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Valencia and a Master’s in Financial Management from the Luis Vives Business School. She worked for several companies in the administration department before starting in her current role at DevStat in 2009. Her qualifications and experience include all aspects of financial administration and accounting at DevStat, as well as the financial management of company projects.
PVotta
Paola Votta Italian / Spanish / Venezuelan
Coordinator, Training and Events
pvotta@devstat.com
Paola Votta studied Economics and holds a Master in Business Strategy by the University of Valencia, focused on the main processes, analytical techniques and decision-making issues related to the formulation and implementation of business strategies.
She joined DevStat in 2011 as a trainee. Two years later she returned as a full-time employee with the tasks to support the implementation of technical assistance activities such as identification and collection of quantitative and qualitative information, following and detecting call for proposals/call for tenders, support in the preparation of proposals and data analysis among others.
Since 2014 she has been deeply involved with the organization for Eurostat of several international workshops, such as the workshops in Modernization of European Statistics. Her tasks related with the logistic coordination, planning, advertising, reporting and support during these events.
DMinkeviciute
Dovile Minkeviciute Lithuanian
Coordinator, Technical Assistance projects
dminkeviciute@devstat.com
Dovile holds two diplomas in Business Administration and Social Sciences. She started her career in 2004 in Statistics Lithuania where she gained the knowledge and understanding of official statistics, its context of producing high-quality statistics, management and dissemination. Since 2008 Dovile is working as international project consultant in the field of statistics as well as a liaison officer with public and private international institutions. Furthermore, her professional experience includes bid management, project implementation and coordination of contracts awarded by European Commission, Delegations, Agencies and other international organisations. In 2015 Dovile joined DevStat team and currently is involved in internal and external business development processes as well as continue expanding her technical expertise in official statistics.
YGomez
Yolanda Gómez Spanish
IT | Data Scientist
ygomez@devstat.com
Yolanda holds a Bachelors in Physics and a Master in Economics from the University of Valencia (UV). Her academic background was complemented by a grant of specialisation in artificial intelligence at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). She is currently finishing her PhD program in industrial economics from the UV.
She worked as software developer and researcher in the laboratory of experimental economics at the UV. She gained a wide expertise in monitoring experiments around the world, controlling the quality of the data obtained and improving their performance.
AKaluzinas
Arturas Kaluzinas Lithuanian
Administrative Assistant
akaluzinas@devstat.com
Arturas is finishing the Business Administration Degree in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is capable of communicating in five languages and has done internships in various fields like administration, marketing or international trade.
Arturas joined DevStat on October of 2017 giving assistance to administration, accountancy, and the implementation of projects.
BHermoso
Borja Hermoso Spanish
International Project Consultant
bhermoso@devstat.com
Borja holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (University of New York in Prague) and a Bachelor in Business and Management (University of Valencia). He currently works as Junior Consultant at DevStat.
He started his career as market analyst in Dubai (UAE) to evaluate prospective sectors for Spanish companies in the Gulf, continuing in internationally recognized market research companies in the same location. Countries covered by his research included the Middle East and Northern Africa region as well as African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya).
Borja managed market research projects for global companies such as Canon, Samsung, HP and other large IT corporations.
At DevStat he is charge of identifying procurement opportunities for consultancy on statistics issued by international and multilateral organisations, as well as contributing to the implementation of consultancy projects as in-house expert.
PFerrer
Pablo Ferrer Spanish
Junior IT
pferrer@devstat.com
Pablo finished a higher technician development degree in web applications. Where he learned about PHP, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, among other technical IT languages. During his studies he made his internship practice in The LogicValue where he learned react-native a new language of programming for Android and IOS.
Pablo joined DevStat team in July of 2018 as Junior IT, programming experiments and providing technical support.
JRipoll
Jordi Ripoll Spanish
Internship
jripoll@devstat.com
Jordi has recently finished his degree in Mathematics and he is currently finishing a Master degree in Biostatistics at the University of Valencia. During his studies, he has been working as intern in the Faculty of Economics (University of Valencia) in research projects on business innovation as statistician.
Jordi has joined DevStat as Junior statistician. Nearly all his work is developed with R, one of the most used programming languages in data science and statistics.
JCervera
José L. Cervera Spanish
CEO
jcervera@devstat.com
José Luis (MSc Mathematics and Chartered State Statistician) has made a professional career during more than 20 years in Official Statistics (Spanish National Statistical Institute, Institute of Statistics of the region of Valencia) and statistical consulting for private and public institutions. He has been responsible for the implementation of household, business and institutions surveys on R&D, innovation, use of ICT, and participated in a large number of international working groups on statistics.
Specific topics of his technical expertise include development indicators, Science and Technology statistics, Information Society indicators and SME statistics (main author of the UNCTAD Manual for the Production of Statistics on the Information Economy).
His professional experience includes statistical capacity building activities (including training) in the Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa (Cape Verde), Latin America (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay), Asia (Kazakhstan, Korea, Thailand) and Central and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania), as a consultant for a number of international organizations including the European Commission, UNCTAD, ITU, PARIS 21, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
MBergamini
Monica Bergamini Italian
Consultant Statistician
mbergamini@devstat.com
Monica holds a degree in social and demographic statistics from the University of Bologna (Italy) and a master degree in economics and econometrics (Southampton University, UK). She currently works as international project consultant.
She started her professional career as an external consultant for Eurostat, where she contributed to the analysis of social data (social protection expenditure and receipts) sent by the Member States and the analysis of qualitative information associated with the data. She contributed to the development of a new data collection module on pensions’ beneficiaries..
At DevStat she has been in charge of managing several specific projects within the Framework Contract on Methodology and Research (Lot 2: Data Analysis) awarded by Eurostat as well as other EC funded projects, among those the EuropeAid FWC Beneficiaries LOT 11.
Her tasks include contacts with the Clients and the experts involved in the projects, revision of all reports and technical documents to be submitted and control that the milestones and deadlines are met.
CPrats
Clara Prats Spanish
Accountancy and finance
admin@devstat.com
Clara is Head of the Administration and Accounts Department at Devstat. She has 18 years’ experience working in both private companies and the public sector in the field of administration, accounts and human resources. She holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Valencia and a Master’s in Financial Management from the Luis Vives Business School. She worked for several companies in the administration department before starting in her current role at DevStat in 2009. Her qualifications and experience include all aspects of financial administration and accounting at DevStat, as well as the financial management of company projects.
PVotta
Paola Votta Italian / Spanish / Venezuelan
Coordinator, Training and Events
pvotta@devstat.com
Paola Votta studied Economics and holds a Master in Business Strategy by the University of Valencia, focused on the main processes, analytical techniques and decision-making issues related to the formulation and implementation of business strategies.
She joined DevStat in 2011 as a trainee. Two years later she returned as a full-time employee with the tasks to support the implementation of technical assistance activities such as identification and collection of quantitative and qualitative information, following and detecting call for proposals/call for tenders, support in the preparation of proposals and data analysis among others.
Since 2014 she has been deeply involved with the organization for Eurostat of several international workshops, such as the workshops in Modernization of European Statistics. Her tasks related with the logistic coordination, planning, advertising, reporting and support during these events.
DMinkeviciute
Dovile Minkeviciute Lithuanian
Coordinator, Technical Assistance projects
dminkeviciute@devstat.com
Dovile holds two diplomas in Business Administration and Social Sciences. She started her career in 2004 in Statistics Lithuania where she gained the knowledge and understanding of official statistics, its context of producing high-quality statistics, management and dissemination. Since 2008 Dovile is working as international project consultant in the field of statistics as well as a liaison officer with public and private international institutions. Furthermore, her professional experience includes bid management, project implementation and coordination of contracts awarded by European Commission, Delegations, Agencies and other international organisations. In 2015 Dovile joined DevStat team and currently is involved in internal and external business development processes as well as continue expanding her technical expertise in official statistics.
YGomez
Yolanda Gómez Spanish
IT | Data Scientist
ygomez@devstat.com
Yolanda holds a Bachelors in Physics and a Master in Economics from the University of Valencia (UV). Her academic background was complemented by a grant of specialisation in artificial intelligence at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). She is currently finishing her PhD program in industrial economics from the UV.
She worked as software developer and researcher in the laboratory of experimental economics at the UV. She gained a wide expertise in monitoring experiments around the world, controlling the quality of the data obtained and improving their performance.
AKaluzinas
Arturas Kaluzinas Lithuanian
Administrative Assistant
akaluzinas@devstat.com
Arturas is finishing the Business Administration Degree in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is capable of communicating in five languages and has done internships in various fields like administration, marketing or international trade.
Arturas joined DevStat on October of 2017 giving assistance to administration, accountancy, and the implementation of projects.
BHermoso
Borja Hermoso Spanish
International Project Consultant
bhermoso@devstat.com
Borja holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (University of New York in Prague) and a Bachelor in Business and Management (University of Valencia). He currently works as Junior Consultant at DevStat.
He started his career as market analyst in Dubai (UAE) to evaluate prospective sectors for Spanish companies in the Gulf, continuing in internationally recognized market research companies in the same location. Countries covered by his research included the Middle East and Northern Africa region as well as African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya).
Borja managed market research projects for global companies such as Canon, Samsung, HP and other large IT corporations.
At DevStat he is charge of identifying procurement opportunities for consultancy on statistics issued by international and multilateral organisations, as well as contributing to the implementation of consultancy projects as in-house expert.
PFerrer
Pablo Ferrer Spanish
Junior IT
pferrer@devstat.com
Pablo finished a higher technician development degree in web applications. Where he learned about PHP, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, Java, among other technical IT languages. During his studies he made his internship practice in The LogicValue where he learned react-native a new language of programming for Android and IOS.
Pablo joined DevStat team in July of 2018 as Junior IT, programming experiments and providing technical support.
JRipoll
Jordi Ripoll Spanish
Internship
jripoll@devstat.com
Jordi has recently finished his degree in Mathematics and he is currently finishing a Master degree in Biostatistics at the University of Valencia. During his studies, he has been working as intern in the Faculty of Economics (University of Valencia) in research projects on business innovation as statistician.
Jordi has joined DevStat as Junior statistician. Nearly all his work is developed with R, one of the most used programming languages in data science and statistics.
JVila
José Vila Spanish
Scientific Advisor
jose.e.vila@uv.es
Jose Vila (MSc Mathematics and Ph.D. Economics) is professor of the University of Valencia, research fellow of ERI-CES (Research centre for social and economic behaviour) and IDAL (Intelligent Data Analysis Laboratory) and member of the expert panel of EMEA (Euro-Mediterranean economist association).
He is an international expert in quantitative methods (development of statistical methodology and application to business and policy decision-making) and behavioural and experimental economics. In these fields, Jose’s expertise covers both methodological- insurance and finance, agriculture, health or cybersecurity among others.
He has 25 years of working experience in researcher and transfer of knowledge on quantitative methods and behavioural economics for international organisations (such as Andean Community Secretariat, European Commission, Eurostat, United Nations agencies or World Bank) and private sector (such as Bayer group, BBVA, Burger King, France Telecom, Novartis or VidaCaixa). Jose Vila has been published in top peer-review scientific indexed journals such as econometrica, games and economic behavior, journal of business research, etc.
PMartin
Pilar Martin-Guzman Spanish
Scientific Advisor
jpilar.guzman@uam.es
Pilar Martin-Guzman (Graduate in Mathematics, Economics and Law and Ph.D. Economics) is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics and Statistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Member of the European Statistics Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB). Her fields of expertise include data analysis, multivariate analysis, poverty and income inequality and social exclusion.
PIlar has been Senior Statistician in the Department of Sampling and Methodology, Spanish Statistical Office, Chief statistician at the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE – Spain), Chair of the TES Institute, Training of European Statisticians EUROSTAT, Chair of the International Association of Official Statisticians, and Vice-president of the International Statistical Institute.
DRios
David Ríos Insua Spanish
Scientific Advisor
david.rios@icmat.es
David is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Author of 13 books and more than 120 refereed papers. His research interests are: Risk Analysis, Decision Analysis and Bayesian Statistics and their applications to security and safety. He has been PI in 50 projects sponsored by organizations worldwide. He recently joined ICMAT-CSIC as the AXA Chair in Adversarial Risk Analysis. He is Professor of OR and Statistics at Rey Juan Carlos University (on leave). Previously he has held research and/or teaching positions at Purdue, Duke, Leeds, Manchester, SAMSI, IIASA, Madrid Technical University and Paris-Dauphine. He is scientific advisor of Aisoy Robotics.
IArribas
Iván Arribas Spanish
Scientific Advisor
ivan.arribas@uv.es
Ivan Arribas (MSc Mathematics with special honours and Ph.D. Economics) is professor at University of Valencia and associate researcher at ivie (Valencian Institute of Economic Research) and research fellow at ERI-CES (Research centre for social and economic behaviour). His fields of main expertise are techniques of quantitative analysis, sample design, international trade and market research.
He has more than 20 years of experience in research in both National and International Research Plan projects and as senior expert in consulting projects for private institution and international organisations. Ivan has lectured in graduate and post-graduate programmes on statistics, quantitative analysis and econometrics in Spain and Latin American countries (Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, University Mar del Plata in Argentina, etc.). He has organised and participated in several international scientific meetings.
ESoria
Emilio Soria-Olivas Spanish
Scientific Advisor
emilio.soria@uv.es
Emilio Soria-Olivas received a Ph.D. degree from the Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain, in 1997. He is a Full Professor at the University of València. His research is centered in the application of Advanced Machine Learning Methods to improve decision taking in different scenarios: economic, social, health, etc. Currently he is working on deep learning (representation learning) and automatic machine learning (machine learning without parameters).
JMartin
José D. Martín-Guerrero Spanish
Scientific Advisor
jose.d.martin@uv.es
Dr. José D. Martín-Guerrero received a B.Sc degree in Theoretical Physics (1997), a M.Eng. degree in Electronics (1999) and a Ph.D. degree in Machine Learning (2004), all from the University of Valencia, Spain. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Valencia. His research interests include Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, with special emphasis in Reinforcement Learning and Quantum Machine Learning. He is a founder Member of the Medical Data Analysis Task Force (Data Mining Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society).
JVila
José Vila Spanish
Scientific Advisor
jose.e.vila@uv.es
Jose Vila (MSc Mathematics and Ph.D. Economics) is professor of the University of Valencia, research fellow of ERI-CES (Research centre for social and economic behaviour) and IDAL (Intelligent Data Analysis Laboratory) and member of the expert panel of EMEA (Euro-Mediterranean economist association).
He is an international expert in quantitative methods (development of statistical methodology and application to business and policy decision-making) and behavioural and experimental economics. In these fields, Jose’s expertise covers both methodological- insurance and finance, agriculture, health or cybersecurity among others.
He has 25 years of working experience in researcher and transfer of knowledge on quantitative methods and behavioural economics for international organisations (such as Andean Community Secretariat, European Commission, Eurostat, United Nations agencies or World Bank) and private sector (such as Bayer group, BBVA, Burger King, France Telecom, Novartis or VidaCaixa). Jose Vila has been published in top peer-review scientific indexed journals such as econometrica, games and economic behavior, journal of business research, etc.
PMartin
Pilar Martin-Guzman Spanish
Scientific Advisor
jpilar.guzman@uam.es
Pilar Martin-Guzman (Graduate in Mathematics, Economics and Law and Ph.D. Economics) is Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics and Statistics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Member of the European Statistics Governance Advisory Board (ESGAB). Her fields of expertise include data analysis, multivariate analysis, poverty and income inequality and social exclusion.
PIlar has been Senior Statistician in the Department of Sampling and Methodology, Spanish Statistical Office, Chief statistician at the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE – Spain), Chair of the TES Institute, Training of European Statisticians EUROSTAT, Chair of the International Association of Official Statisticians, and Vice-president of the International Statistical Institute.
DRios
David Ríos Insua Spanish
Scientific Advisor
david.rios@icmat.es
David is a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Author of 13 books and more than 120 refereed papers. His research interests are: Risk Analysis, Decision Analysis and Bayesian Statistics and their applications to security and safety. He has been PI in 50 projects sponsored by organizations worldwide. He recently joined ICMAT-CSIC as the AXA Chair in Adversarial Risk Analysis. He is Professor of OR and Statistics at Rey Juan Carlos University (on leave). Previously he has held research and/or teaching positions at Purdue, Duke, Leeds, Manchester, SAMSI, IIASA, Madrid Technical University and Paris-Dauphine. He is scientific advisor of Aisoy Robotics.
IArribas
Iván Arribas Spanish
Scientific Advisor
ivan.arribas@uv.es
Ivan Arribas (MSc Mathematics with special honours and Ph.D. Economics) is professor at University of Valencia and associate researcher at ivie (Valencian Institute of Economic Research) and research fellow at ERI-CES (Research centre for social and economic behaviour). His fields of main expertise are techniques of quantitative analysis, sample design, international trade and market research.
He has more than 20 years of experience in research in both National and International Research Plan projects and as senior expert in consulting projects for private institution and international organisations. Ivan has lectured in graduate and post-graduate programmes on statistics, quantitative analysis and econometrics in Spain and Latin American countries (Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, University Mar del Plata in Argentina, etc.). He has organised and participated in several international scientific meetings.
ESoria
Emilio Soria-Olivas Spanish
Scientific Advisor
emilio.soria@uv.es
Emilio Soria-Olivas received a Ph.D. degree from the Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain, in 1997. He is a Full Professor at the University of València. His research is centered in the application of Advanced Machine Learning Methods to improve decision taking in different scenarios: economic, social, health, etc. Currently he is working on deep learning (representation learning) and automatic machine learning (machine learning without parameters).
JMartin
José D. Martín-Guerrero Spanish
Scientific Advisor
jose.d.martin@uv.es
Dr. José D. Martín-Guerrero received a B.Sc degree in Theoretical Physics (1997), a M.Eng. degree in Electronics (1999) and a Ph.D. degree in Machine Learning (2004), all from the University of Valencia, Spain. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Valencia. His research interests include Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, with special emphasis in Reinforcement Learning and Quantum Machine Learning. He is a founder Member of the Medical Data Analysis Task Force (Data Mining Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society).
Our relation with our clients
We design projects adapted to the characteristics and needs of each of our
clients. According to their preferences…
- We can provide them with specific quantitative information or information
analysis, at a given moment or over time. - We can help them to implement sustaintable Policy and Business Intelligence
methodologies that can be used and maintained independently by
our clients. - We can integrate specific human or technical resources within our client’s
structure.
Devstat and its managing partners have led projects for the following clients (non-exhaustive list):
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