Emanuele BALDACCI (Eurostat) is currently director of methodology, IT and corporate statistical services at Eurostat. From October 2011 to April 2015 he was the head of the integration, quality and research department in the Italian statistical office. Before that, he was a deputy division chief in the International Monetary Fund, a senior economist at the World Bank and also served as chief economist at SACE: the largest Italian trade finance group. He has a PhD in Demography from the Universities of Rome, Florence, and Padua; he is the author of several scientific publications of fiscal sustainability, macroeconomic risk in advanced and emerging economies, population aging and social protection and official statistics modernization.