Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva

Dr Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva

Statistics Adviser: Data Systems
Data Services and Dissemination
Reports to: Phil Bright
Location: Noumea
I speak:
English
Français

About Giulio Valentino

Giulio is a Statistics Adviser, responsible for ensuring reliable and efficient data systems. He is the product owner for SPC’s dissemination portal, an SDMX-powered .stat statistical database part of the Pacific Data Hub. He also run training initiatives, and is leading the establishment of a data governance framework in the Statistics for Development Division. Giulio has more than 15 years of experience in data science, AI, statistics, and innovation management. Having gained a PhD in Mathematics, he worked as a Senior Lecturer in data science at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, collaborating in many interdisciplinary research organisations, such as Te Punaha Matatini (New Zealand) and the Digital Democracy Institute (Canada). He founded and directs Baffelan, a boutique data science consultancy company, and in this role he collaborated with numerous international companies.

How I support stakeholders

  • Ensuring the maintenance of the highest degree of quality in the dissemination of official statistics
  • Identifying new opportunities to widen the adoption of SDMX standards for data exchange in the region
  • Working with internal and external stakeholders to help them in taming the complexity of their datasets.