Lígia Maria Nunes is an economist-statistician at the Statistics Department of Banco de Portugal since 2009. She is currently a senior adviser of the Executive Management and the chief storyteller of the Statistics Department of Banco de Portugal. She has worked, previously, at the Methodological Developments Unit (2011-2013 and 2016-2018), as a risk analyst (2013-2016) at Banco de Portugal's pension funds and as a Monetary and Financial Statistics expert (2009-2011) at the Statistics Department of Banco de Portugal. Lígia Maria Nunes holds a Master Degree in Economics from Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra. She is an invited assistant teacher at Nova SBE since 2015 where she teaches data analysis and statistics.