Scarlett Fondeur Gil has worked for the Division on Technology and Logistics at UNCTAD since 2003. She and her colleagues produce UNCTAD’s flagship report on the digital economy, which looks at trends in ICT for sustainable trade and development. She also works on the development of information economy statistics, representing UNCTAD in the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development. UNCTAD currently collects data on the use of ICT by businesses, on the ICT sector, and on international trade in ICT goods, and is working to improve the measurement of e-commerce and of international trade in ICT-enabled services.

Ms Fondeur Gil is an economics graduate from the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology in the Dominican Republic, with a master's in international relations from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.