Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva. Italian and New Zealand citizen, based in Nouméa, New Caledonia.

I'm a Statistics Advisor (Data Systems) at the Pacific Community. I look after PDH .Stat, an SDMX data platform supporting evidence-based work across the Pacific island nations. I lead several AI-for-data-access projects, and I drive the adoption of a Data Governance practice in the division.

I founded and run Baffelan, a boutique data-science consultancy that takes on data-science-for-good projects alongside paid work for organisations that want more from their data than a cookie-cutter answer can give them.

I was Director of Data Innovation at Inverence, where I led a team of around ten people building llull, an AI-integrated platform for data discovery and data understanding deployed at banks, large corporations, and a handful of government institutions, until the product was finally ready for market in September 2025.

Before all that I was a Senior Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Canterbury, where I led the DaRe Science research group, taught data wrangling, statistics, machine learning and ethics, and worked on AI and disinformation.

I trained as a mathematician (PhD Canterbury, MSc Trento). I work in Julia, R, and Python, and I like to put different things together and see what happens when they inevitably explode.