Martine Durand was appointed Director of Statistics and Chief Statistician of the OECD in 2010. Formally OECD DeputyDirector of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, she currently oversees all of the OECD’s statistical activities and is responsible for providing strategic orientation for the Organisation’s statistical policy. In this capacity, she is responsible for the OECD work on the measurement of well-being and the progress of societies, which is the underpinnings of the OECD Better Life Initative and comprises the flagship report How’s Life? Measuring Well-Being and the innovative web tool Your Better Life Index. She has authored and co-authored numerous articles and publications in the area of international competitiveness, labour markets, social policies and international migration. She graduated in mathematics, statistics and economics from the Paris VI University, Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique and the University of Wisconsin-Madison-USA.