Mr Mike Sharp
Analysis and Insights
About Mike
Following a study break, Mike Sharp rejoined SPC in 2024 in a welfare economics and poverty statistics capacity. He first joined SPC in 2011 as a Fisheries Economist, then had various roles with the Statistics for Development Division from 2014 to 2023 entailing the provision of technical support to Pacific Island countries and territories in the conduct of household surveys, with particular focus on household income and expenditure surveys (HIES), food and consumption statistics. He managed various statistics development projects, engaged actively with international partners and regional statistics governance bodies, and led research in poverty and food consumption statistics.
Mike’s various roles at SPC have all included elements of capacity strengthening and transfer to Pacific counterparts across population, economic and social statistics, and with gender, cultural and environmental dimensions. Prior to SPC, Mike worked in rural livelihood development in Vanuatu and Guyana, and in the Australian private sector. Mike has a Master of Economics and a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics.
How I support stakeholders
- Providing technical support to Pacific national statistics offices to develop capacity in statistics relating to the measurement of living standards and poverty, including by mainstreaming modern data practices and through partner engagement
- Promoting statistics best practice with respect to the collection and compilation of data used to measure living standards and poverty, and conduct Pacific-related statistics research
- Supporting Pacific national statistics offices to collect and compile consumption data via household surveys, and to use these data to measure poverty
- Providing technical support and transfer capacity to Pacific national statistics offices in areas relating to the production, analysis and dissemination of consumption statistics.