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Michaela Saisana

Senior Scientific Officer European Commission, Joint Research Centre Econometric and Applied Statistics Unit TP 361, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy Email: michaela.saisana@jrc.it URL: http://composite-indicators.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

Michaela Saisana has been a Scientific Officer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (Italy) since 1998. She has audited more than 60 composite indicators, upon request of their developers, including Yale and Columbia University, World Economic Forum, Harvard School of Economics, INSEAD, World Intellectual Property Organization, Bertelsmann Foundation, New York Medical College, University of S. Carolina- Criminology and Criminal Justice, World Justice Project, and others.

She is offering regularly courses on the development and robustness assessment of composite indicators to the academia, international organizations, and European Commission officials. She is a principal author of the 2008 OECD/JRC Handbook on Composite Indicators, co-author of the book Global Sensitivity Analysis: The Primer (2008), and developer and moderator of the JRC Information server on composite indicators. Her publications deal with sensitivity analysis, composite indicators, multicriteria analysis, multivariate analysis, multi-objective optimization, and air quality modelling and forecasting (20 peer-reviewed publications, 40 working papers). In 2004 she won the European Commission – JRC Young Scientist Prize in Statistics and Econometrics, awarded by the then Commissioner for Research Janez Potočnik. She has a PhD and an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (received with Awards from the Technical Chambers of Greece).