Robert Peter Ndugwa is the Officer in charge of the Global  Urban Observatory Unit in the Research and Capacity Development Branch at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in  Nairobi, Kenya. He is primarily responsible for the UN-Habitat 's global urban monitoring and reporting on SDGs and also doubles as the chief statistician for UN-Habitat.  Before joining UN-Habitat, he worked with UNICEF as head of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics in Kenya  Country Office; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine-UK;  University of Heidelberg-Germany; African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya, and Makerere University Kampala. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His research interests include slum estimations; city prosperity measurements;  urbanization and health systems dynamics; urban inequalities and marginalization; urban spatial analysis and mapping; mobile technologies for data collection in urban and remote areas; urban demographic surveillance systems; and urbanization and adolescent transitions. He has contributed to several book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in  Journals such as the Journal of Urban Health; Lancet, International  Journal of Epidemiology; Journal of Child Health; Malaria Journal; Studies in Family Planning; Bulletin of World Health Organization, etc.