Daniel Ker

Daniel Ker is Head of E-commerce and Digital Trade measurement at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). As Secretariat lead for the Task Group on Measuring E-commerce Value (TG-eCOM), he has spearheaded development of the international Guidelines and Recommendations on Measuring E-commerce Value as well as the UNCTAD global database on E-commerce sales. Daniel is also an author of the IMF-OECD-UNCTAD-WTO Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade and has extensive experience of supporting countries through capacity building and technical assistance. Before joining UNCTAD in 2021, Daniel spent five years at the OECD working on R&D statistics and measuring various aspects of the digital economy. This included co-authoring the G20 Roadmap toward a common framework for measuring the digital economy and flagship report “Measuring the Digital Transformation”. Prior to that, Daniel worked at the United Kingdom Office for National Statistics in labour market statistics, National Accounts, and as co-Deputy Director for Public Sector Statistics.