Valentin Todorov served for 15 years as a Senior Management Information Officer with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and after retiring from UNIDO works as an independent consultant on projects with the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Gulf Organization for Industrial Consulting (GOIC). He received a doctoral degree in statistics from Vienna University of Technology, Austria and holds a master’s degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and the University of Vienna, Austria. His research activities include multivariate data analysis, computational statistics, robust statistics, official statistics, and statistical information systems. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), a member of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) since 1991, the Austrian Statistical Society (ÖSG) and the Italian Statistical Society (SIS). He has developed and maintains at CRAN several packages for the statistical software environment R and actively promotes R, especially in official statistics, by organizing and participating in trainings and technical cooperation projects in developing and emerging industrialized countries.
