Ms. Elena Manzanera Díaz, President of the National Statistics Institute of Spain – dgins2025.hr

Ms. Elena Manzanera Díaz, President of the National Statistics Institute of Spain

Ms. Elena Manzanera Díaz, President of the National Statistics Institute of Spain

Elena Manzanera Díaz holds the position of President of the NSI in Spain since August 2022. Graduate in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Seville. She entered the Senior Statisticians Body of the Junta de Andalucía by competitive examination in 1994 and has a Doctoral program in “Methodology and Analysis of the Andalusian Economy” in the Department of Applied Economics II of the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences of the University of Seville. She previously carried out a variety of functions at the Statistical and Cartography Institute of Andalucia, including the post of Director. She was Head of the Studies Service of the General Directorate of Andalusian Studies and head of the Tourism Planning and Analysis Service in the General Directorate of Tourism Planning.

Other speakers

Ms. Lidija Brković, Director-General of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics

Ms. Mariana Kotzeva, Director-General of Eurostat

Mr. Tonči Glavina, Minister of Tourism and Sport of the Republic of Croatia

Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity; Implementation and Simplification

Ms. Maja Bakran Marcich, Deputy Director-General of Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) of the European Commission

Mr. Athanasios C. Thanopoulos, President of the Hellenic Statistical Authority

Mr. Sergio Guerreiro, Senior Director for Strategy & Knowledge Management at Turismo de Portugal, Chair of OECD Tourism Committee

Mr. Marek Cierpiał-Wolan, President of Statistics Poland

Mr. Christophe Demunter, Eurostat

Mr. António Rua, President of the National Statistics Institute of Portugal (Instituto Nacional de Estatística – INE)

Ms. Apolonija Oblak Flander, Director-General of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Ms. Inga Masiulaitytė-Šukevič, Deputy Director General of Statistics Lithuania

Ms. Clara van der Pol, Director a.i., Statistics, Standards and Data Department of UN Tourism

Mr. Markus Sovala, Director-General of Statistics Finland

Mr. Peter Laimer, Head of Tourism Statistics at Statistics Austria, Co‑chair of UN Tourism Committee on Statistics

Mr. Marek Rojíček, President of the Czech Statistical Office

Mr. Francesco Maria Chelli, President of the Italian National Institute of Statistics

Ms. Ann Carton, Coordinator network Statistics Flanders, Flanders Statistics Authority

Mr. Raimonds Lapiņš, Director-General, Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia

Mr. Nadim Ahmad, Deputy Director at the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE)

Mr. Daniel Vorgrimler, Head of Department Strategy and Planning, International Relations, Research and Communication, German Federal Statistical Office

Mr. Damir Krešić, Director of the Croatian Institute for Tourism

Mr. Etienne Caruana, Director-General, National Statistics Office of Malta

Mr. Geir Axelsen, Director-General of Statistics Norway

Mr. Georges-Simon Ulrich, Director General of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office – 2026 DGINS announcement