Statistical capacity building
Hallgrímur Snorrason has a special interest in statistical capacity building. He has been associated with such work in several newly emerging democracies and developing countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has organised conferences and workshops on official statistics and lectured at conferences and seminars in several countries on capacity building, organisation of statistical systems and offices, principles for official statistics and best practices in official statistics. Hallgrímur has been associated with review work of the statistical foundations in developing countries for measuring indicators for the Millennium Development Goals through a “friends-of-the-chair” group of the UN Statistical Commission and been a member of a similar UNSC group reviewing the International Price Comparison Program.