Phil Bright

Mr Phil Bright

Manager: Data Services and Dissemination
Data Services and Dissemination
Reports to: Peter Ellis
Location: Noumea
I speak:
English
Français

About Phil

Phil Bright has more than 20 years’ experience providing technical assistance in the Pacific. As Manager of Data Services and Dissemination, he leads a multidisciplinary team responsible for supporting regional infrastructure for official statistics, managing dissemination platforms such as the Pacific Data Hub microdata library, PDH.Stat, PopGIS, and numerous reports and dashboards. His team also focuses on publications and graphic design for statistical outputs.

Previously, Phil was the GIS, Innovation and Dissemination Lead at SPC. As co-founder of the Pacific Data Hub, he has collaborated with a wide range of development partners and donors. Before that, Phil’s career at SPC began as a GIS Specialist for Census and Surveys, where he designed and implemented PopGIS, an innovative geospatial information system.

Phil holds an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in geographic information science from Curtin University.

How I support stakeholders

  • Advising heads of national statistics offices on data governance, data management, visualisation and dissemination
  • Overseeing the regional data infrastructure for official statistics through the Pacific Data Hub and Statistics for Development Division’s website, and supporting national statistics offices to manage dissemination of data and knowledge products through their own websites and data platforms
  • Overseeing key projects in support of Pacific statistics and data in collaboration with donors and development partners
  • Coordinating recruitment and providing leadership for divisional staff and contractors with expertise in data science, GIS, web development, publications, data and information management.