Albert Motivans heads the Education Indicators and Data Analysis (EIDA) Division of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics where he oversees the global development, collection and analysis of cross-national education indicators for benchmarking education policy and monitoring progress towards the international development targets. He has written widely on global education trends and the use of indicators for policy analysis and regularly contributes to the Global Education Digest and EFA Global Monitoring Report. He has worked in the field of measurement and child welfare for more than 20 years with the U.S. Census Bureau, UNICEF and since 2001 with UNESCO.