News 29 Aug 2019

Finland becomes member of UN’s HLG-PCCB

Statistics Finland's Director General Marjo Bruun has been appointed as a member of UN’s HLG-PCCB. The task of HLG-PCCB is to provide strategic leadership for the sustainable development goal implementation process as it concerns statistical monitoring and reporting.

The United Nations Statistics Division established HLG-PCCB (High-level Group for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for statistics for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) in 2015. The group consists of 23 countries. The other members from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe besides Finland are the Directors General of Albania’s, United Kingdom’s, Georgia’s, Switzerland’s and Hungary’s statistical institutes.

Further information: Planning Officer Marika Pohjola, tel. +358 29 551 2563