Agustín Cañada is since 2013 Director of the “Unit of Quality and Good Practices for the Official Statistics” at the National Statistical Institute (INE) of Spain and as such, he was Co-Chair of the Programme Committee and Chair of the Local Committee for the European Conference on Quality of European Statistics 2016 (Q2016). He began his work at the National Institute of Statistics in 1986, after passing the competitive exams to the Higher Body of State Statisticians. Between 1987 and 2008 he was Deputy Director of the National Accounts Department at INE. He has also worked (2009-2012) at the Regional Statistics Office of Madrid, as Technical Advisor of Economic Statistics and Regional Accounts. He is a Founder Member of the Committee of Statistics and Satellite Account of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). He has published several books and scientific articles on National Accounts, Input-output and Tourism Statistics. He co-authored the first Edition of the Eurostat I-O Handbook and authored the methodology of the Regional Tourism Satellite Account of the UNWTO. He holds a PhD in economics and he is currently associate Professor of economics at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
