Steve MacFeely is the Director of Data and Analytics for the World Health Organization and the Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Policy Studies in University College Cork, Ireland. Before working in the WHO, Steve was the Head of Statistics & Information at the United Nation Conference for Trade and Development in Geneva, UNCTAD, as well as the Assistant Director-General at the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in Ireland and was a member of the Oversight Board of the new Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service. He established the “Professional Diploma in Official Statistics & Policy Evaluation” at the Institute of Public Administration in Ireland and played a central role in launching the ISLP competition in Ireland. He has published over a dozen papers in peer reviewed journals covering a range of topics including family business, cross-border shopping, productivity, tourism, input-output, regional policy and data infrastructure.