Marcos Domínguez-Torreiro is a senior researcher at the “Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards” of the European Commission. He is specialised in policy oriented research, drawing heavily on applied statistics and econometrics. After his undergraduate studies in Economics and Business Administration, he completed his doctoral thesis in Applied Economics at the University of Vigo, Spain. His career spans academia, private sector and government. He has contributed to several books, book chapters, academic journal articles and science for policy reports in the fields of composite indicators, environmental and natural resource economics, institutional economics and finance.