Jude works on economic development indicators and policy research for the Statistics and Data Innovation Unit of the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. He has worked on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators and Philippine education. More recently, his work has focused on agricultural statistics in Asia and the Pacific, the application of survey technology, such as computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI), as well as the conduct of economic research using various innovative data sources and methods. He holds a master’s degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics.