José María Méndez, Head of the Statistics Area on household income and living conditions of the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE), has agreed to participate in the round table on Inequality and Unequal Development in Portugal and Spain that will take place on July 7, 2023 in the next ASEPELT congress.

Holding a degree in Mathematics from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master's in General Statistics and Mathematics from the University Institute of Statistics and Operations Research of the same University, he began his professional career as a teacher, working for 4 years as a secondary school teacher.

He joined the INE as Senior State Statistician in 1997 and since then his professional career has been linked to household income and living conditions surveys (European Union Household Panel and Living Conditions Survey). Life). He has also participated in the development of the Atlas of Household Income Distribution statistics, which was launched in 2019 as Experimental Statistics.