Advisory services
Methodological consultations, quality assessments, and improvement roadmaps that align statistical processes with international best practice and the relevant manuals.
Official economic statistics — consulting since 2004
Advancing official economic statistics.
EconAdvisor helps national and regional statistical systems modernise their economic statistics — bridging international best practice with the pragmatic realities of compilation, dissemination, and capacity in the countries doing the work.
What we do
Five practice areas, one focus: making official statistics more useful.
Engagements typically combine methodological depth, technical implementation, and capacity building — tailored to each statistical system's stage of development.
Data science & official statistics
Integrating new data sources, methods, and tooling into the statistical business process — while keeping the production chain auditable and reproducible.
Capacity building
Training, technology adaptation, and governance work to put a sustainable foundation under the National Statistical System — the prerequisite for everything else.
NSDS
Drafting, implementing, and evaluating National Strategies for the Development of Statistics — the planning instrument that ties statistical priorities to national development goals.
Composite indicators & web dashboards
From conceptual framework through aggregation and uncertainty analysis to publication: bespoke composite indicators built on transparent, reproducible R pipelines — surfaced through interactive Shiny dashboards designed for analysts, policy users, and the public. Recent work covers regional integration, diversification, and convergence indices for GCC member states.
About
Kari Manninen
Finnish economist working with national and regional statistical systems to develop their official economic statistics. Based in Udine, Italy; engagements worldwide.
Download CV (PDF)- 20+ years of international experience in development, training, evaluation, and analysis of official statistics.
- Statistical capacity building & institutional development — with a specialisation in short-term economic statistics.
- 15+ years of project management across long-term, complex statistics projects, leading and contributing to culturally diverse teams.
- Regional experience in the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, Central and Western Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa.
- Broad fluency across economic statistics: methodology, compilation, dissemination, use, and the interdependencies between domains.
20+
Years of experience
2004
Year founded
18
Countries worked with
Get in touch
Have a project in mind? Let's talk.
Short-term advisory, multi-year programmes, or one-off methodology notes — happy to discuss whether and how I can help.
Email kari@econadvisor.com- kari@econadvisor.com
- Phone
- +39 389 444 1777
- Based in
- Udine, Italy
- VAT
- IT 03112490309
- linkedin.com/in/kari-manninen