Elaine Borghi is a statistician working for the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization, Geneva, since 2002. Her main achievements include the development of the WHO Child Growth Standards, the WHO 2007 References for School-age Children and Adolescents, the UNICEF-WHO-WB Joint Malnutrition Estimates and the co-authoring the monitoring methodology for progress assessment towards the global nutrition targets, SDG Target 2.2 and the 13th WHO Global Program of Work (GPW13), including the development of analytical and visualization tools, like the WHO Anthro Survey Analyser and the Tracking Tool for monitoring the World Health Assembly nutrition targets for 2025. More recently, Dr Borghi is contributing to coordination of efforts for nutrition and food safety data management, generation of regional and global level estimates and data sharing tools, and to the facilitation of inter-department data and methods harmonization. She holds a PhD degree from the Statistics Department of the University of Wisconsin, USA (1997) and also has a master’s degree in Statistics from the State University of Campinas, Brazil (1992). Previously to her position at WHO, she was a lecture at the State University of Campinas, Brazil, for 12 years. Besides teaching, it was her responsibility to provide statistical support to research in agriculture planning for rural sustainable development.