Milorad Kovacevic

Milorad Kovacevic is chief statistician of the Human Development Report Office. Before joining UNDP in 2009, he worked at Statistics Canada for more than seventeen years as head of Data Analysis Methods Research. He also worked for the Federal Statistical Office of Yugoslavia and taught statistics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and the University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States. He spent two sabbaticals doing statistical methodology research at the University of Southampton (UK) and the University of Wollongong (Australia). Milorad has been doing research and teaching in the area of survey sampling, analysis of complex survey data, analysis of longitudinal data, estimation of inequality, polarization and poverty, finite population inference and international comparison. He was the President of the Survey Methods Section of the Statistical Society of Canada. Milorad holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Belgrade.

Revisiting Human Development Measurement: What's at stake

Second Conference on Measuring Human Progress

The Second Conference on Measuring Human Progress, organized by the Human Development Report Office, will take place on 4–5 March as a part of an on-going initiative to strengthen the nexus between the human development concept, its measurement, and its policy impact.

The conference coincides with the fifth anniversary of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, established on the initiative of President Sarkozy of France in April 2008 to examine the relevance of GDP as measure of economic, environmental and social sustainability and societal well-being in general. Bringing together renowned experts from several countries, the Commission was overseen by professors Joseph E. Stiglitz of Columbia University, Amartya Sen of Harvard University, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Date: 
22 February 2013