Lea Rotairo is a consultant with the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department and involved in the preparation of ADB’s Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific and Basic Statistics. She also supported a project on improving agricultural statistics through remote sensing. Before ADB, she worked for the Philippines’ Department of Agriculture, National Statistical Coordination Board (now the Philippine Statistics Authority), Institute of Statistics at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB), and IRRI. She has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Statistics from UPLB.