González-Villalobos
is an International Statistical Consultant. He has been
Statistical Manager and survey statistician in charge
of the direction and organization of censuses and probability
sample survey programs conducted to provide baseline
national statistics and for special studies. He has
international experience in the planning and execution
of national Censuses and Survey Programmes on a variety
of fields: agriculture, livestock, population and housing, fisheries,
industry, economy, forestry, health, epidemiology, women
status, environment, and on statistical education. His
main interest as a survey statistician has been the
introduction of probability sampling survey methods
to conduct baseline national statistics in many countries.
His specialization is the survey design and management
of national censuses and surveys based on the application
of probability sampling methods with area or multiple
frame designs involving the use of satellite images
and photos, remote sensing technology, and Geographic
Information Systems (GIS). He worked in more than fifty
countries where he has undertaken advisory and training
missions, delivered lectures, participated, organized
and chaired around 80 international statistical meetings
and seminars.
González-Villalobos is Academician
(Fellow member) of the National Academy of Sciences,
Argentina, and also member of the Academy’s
Institute of Research and Development, the International
Statistical Institute (ISI)-The Netherlands-, Council
member of the ISI during the period 1997-2001, founding
member of ISI’s Gregor-Johann Mendel Committee
on Agricultural Statistics, member of the International
Association of Survey Statisticians (IASS)-France-,
IASS Vice-President for the periods 1987-1989 and
2003-2005, and member of the Program Committee for
the 2001 ISI Session in Seoul, Korea; member of the
International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS)-The
Netherlands-, of the “International Association
for Statistical Education” (IASE)-The Netherlands-,
and of the Argentine Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAPC)-Argentina- and Council member for
the period (2007-2009); as well as honorary member
of other professional associations and editorial boards.
González-Villalobos has been
Senior Statistician in the FAO (Food and Agricultural
Organization of the United Nations) Statistics Division,
in Rome, from 1992 to 2003. He was then in charge
of Survey and Census Methods, the World Census of
Agriculture Programme, which involved publications
on statistical methods, classifications and international
standards for the planning and execution of national
agricultural censuses & surveys; maintenance of
a worldwide census database; formulation and supervision
of a number of statistical projects and activities
in countries of Africa, America, Asia and Europe;
application of remote sensing technology to agricultural
statistics; and organization of international seminars
and workshops on statistical methods and practices.
González-Villalobos
has been: General Manager of the 1991 Population and
Housing Census of Argentina at the National Statistical
Institute of Argentina in Buenos Aires (1990-1992);
General Manager at the National Space Research Institute
in Brazil, responsible for the direction of Brazil's
Current Agricultural Statistics Program (1985-1989).
Head of the Census Methodology Area for the 1985 National
Census of Industries and the Evaluation Survey for the
1985 Economic Censuses of Argentina (1984-1985). Head
of the Population Census Methodology Area in charge
of the census implementation, survey design, data analysis
and publication of results for the 1980 Population &
Housing Census of Argentina (1980-1982). Permanent Statistical
Advisor to the Technical Director's Cabinet at the Brazilian
National Statistical Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(1974-1980). Statistical Consultant for the design and
organization of a wide range of large-scale national
surveys and censuses in many countries: Consultant for
the FAO, the World Health Organization (WHO), the International
Labour Office (ILO), the UNESCO, and Research Scientist
working in applied statistics at the National Research
Council of Argentina, as well as for private corporations.
Previously, as a mathematician and statistician, he
lectured or was Visiting Scholar in several universities
and research institutes: The University of Chicago (USA),
the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the University
of Brasília (Brasil), the National School of
Statistical Sciences -ENCE- (Río de Janeiro,
Brasil), the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics
-IMPA- of the National Research Council (Rio de Janeiro,
Brasil), among others.
González-Villalobos has written several books
and more than eighty papers on statistical methods for
conducting censuses and surveys, stochastic processes,
probability theory and Fourier series and integrals.
His two-volume book entitled Multiple Frame Agricultural
Surveys, has been published and translated in six
languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French and
Spanish, and has been adopted as a reference book on
agricultural surveys in many countries. In addition,
to quote a recognized world authority in Statistics
and specialist in the topic, it may be appropriate to
mention that Frederic A.Vogel has written that the book
Multiple Frame Agricultural Surveys represents
a landmark in the field of agricultural statistics.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and having Argentinean and French citizenships, González-Villalobos
has working knowledge of several languages. He received
his M.Sc. (Master of Science) and Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)
in Mathematics from The University of Chicago.
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