International Day Of Women in Statistics and Data Science

Monica Pratesi is Full Professor of Statistics at the University of Pisa and a member of the Scientific Council of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). She served as President of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS) from 2021 to 2023 and as Director of the Department for Statistical Production at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) from 2022 to 2024, following her service on the Istat Governing Board (2016–2022). She was also President of the Italian Statistical Society (2016–2020). Her research interests include small area estimation, poverty mapping, citizen data quality, inference for hard-to-reach populations, nonresponse in telephone and web surveys, and the impact of complex survey designs on statistical modelling. She has coordinated several national and international research projects on Small Area Statistics, funded by the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of University and Research.