Gady Saiovici is a Fellow within the Human Exploitation and Resilience Program at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management and a Senior Economist at the International Labor Organization's Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch in Geneva, Switzerland, within its Research and Evaluation Unit, where he works on child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking. His current work centers on two hard problems: measuring populations that are hard to count, and identifying what reduces those harms.

Since 2023 he has been Project Director/Principal Investigator of the STATIP (Standard Tools for Analysis of Trafficking in Persons) initiative, funded by the U.S. Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office). Jointly with UNODC, IOM, and the University of Georgia, STATIP is producing the international statistical guidelines on measuring trafficking in persons victimization, scheduled for submission to the 2027 UN Statistical Commission. He co-leads a global initiative with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) on what works in forced labor and trafficking interventions and applies AI across the survey-to-evidence workflow to synthesize that evidence more quickly and at lower cost.

Between 2017 and 2020, at the ILO, he was a core author of the Alliance 8.7 flagship report on ending child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking in global supply chains, prepared with the OECD, IOM, and UNICEF for the G20, and contributed to the international guidelines on forced labor measurement adopted at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians.

Between 2021 and 2022, Gady was Head of the Statistical Technical Support Unit within UNHCR's Global Data Service in Copenhagen, leading the agency's results monitoring surveys, statistical external engagement, and quality standards. From 2015 to 2017, he was with the Statistical Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), coordinating the Conference of European Statisticians' Steering Group on SDG Statistics and co-authoring the regional Road Map on Statistics for Sustainable Development Goals. From 2012 to 2015, he was with The World Bank's Human Development Unit for Europe and Central Asia, co-authoring regional flagship reports on jobs and aging. He began his international career at the ILO in 2011, developing indicators on maternity protection.

Across more than fifteen years and over twenty countries, Gady has engaged with National Statistical Offices, ministries, and international organizations. He is passionate about responsible AI and digital transformation as practical tools to augment policy work. He holds a Master of Research in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a Bachelor in Economic Sciences from the Universidade de São Paulo. He is a Brazilian and Romanian national and works in Portuguese, English, Spanish, and French.