Biography
Fernando Reis is an Invited Lecturer at NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS) in the field of big data and official statistics. He has a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the New University of Lisbon, with a specialization in econometrics. He was a senior statistician at the National Statistics Institute of Portugal (INE) between 1997 and 2003. Since 2004 he has been an official at Eurostat (European Commission), the statistical office of the European Union. After working for several years in the production of official statistics, since 2011 he has been dedicated to methodological development, first in the modernization of social statistics, in particular in the integration of household surveys, and since 2014 in the use of big data for the production of official statistics. In the big data domain, Fernando Reis did research on the use of data from mobile phone operators and the World Wide Web for statistical purposes. He also addressed broader questions about the impact of big data for official statistics and methodological developments such as the correction of selectivity in big data sources and quality frameworks.