Susan is a public health specialist with over 25 years of experience working on improving the effectiveness of population health and nutrition programs and policy at the World Bank, including…
Sulekha has worked extensively with UN groups on improving data quality for social indicators and, for improving the quality and availability of gender statistics and indicators. As team leader of the Socio-Demographic team in the World Bank’s Development Data Group, she also has experience working directly with countries to integrate gender into national statistical and monitoring and evaluation systems. With counterparts from the UN Statistics Division and the Bank’s Gender and Development Department, she co-founded the Global Forum on Gender Statistics, and its two Inter-Agency and Expert Groups on Gender Statistics and Capacity Building.
Jozef is a PhD economist professor at Lazarski University in Warsaw, with expert knowledge of economic semiotics, information infrastructure, official statistics, and trans-border statistics. He was, director of the Research Center of Statistics of the CSO Poland (1974-1991), chair of the UN Statistical Commission (1994-1995), chair of the Joint Working Group on standardization in official statistics of the Statistical Computing Project of UNDP and CES, chair of the task force of the Conference of European Statisticians for elaborating the draft of the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics (1989-1991), advisor to the Governor of the National Bank of Poland on information infrastructure and statistics of financial sector (1996-2005), and president of the CSO Poland (1992-1995, 2006-2011). He is a member of the International Statistical Institute and Statistical Advisory Board of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and has authored over 300 scientific and professional publications, with special reference to design and organization of statistical surveys, statistical meta-information standards and systems, trans-border statistics.
Ramesh was the first Malaysian to hold the position of Chief Statistician of Malaysia. His long career is marked by achievements ranging from helping to design the first edition of…
Misha is an expert in practical and operational statistical capacity building, both internationally and with national governments. For many years, he was responsible for the World Bank’s lending programs for statistical capacity building and for the partnership programs with national statistical offices. As a manager in the World Bank’s Development Data Group, he led the work on International Statistical Programs, was program manager for STATCAP, managed the Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building, supervised the Global Office of the International Comparison Program, and represented the Bank in many statistical forums.
Eric is a globally recognized economist with a passion for analyzing the most effective ways to use data for development. He was an original member of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on the Millennium Development Goals. As senior advisor and program manager of the World Bank’s Development Data Group, he was in charge of World Development Indicators and Global Monitoring, was managing editor of the World Development Indicators and Atlas of Global Development, and managed production of the Bank’s principal statistical databases.
As a member of the senior management team, he was an expert representative on numerous high-level international committees and taskforces.
Graham is a professional statistician with more than 40 years experience working in development and in developing countries. He has a degree in statistics from the University of London and has worked as an agricultural statistician, a statistical trainer, a policy adviser on poverty and rural development and an adviser on the development of statistical services. From 2000 to 2009, he worked with the World Bank as a senior statistician supporting the development of national statistical systems in developing countries. Since then, he has been an expert consultant in FAO, in World Bank, and in a number of countries advising on national statistical system development. He is currently at PARIS21 as an advisor for the “Informing a Data Revolution” project.
Chandrika has 20+ years of experience compiling and analyzing data and statistics for search engines such as Microsoft and Google. She has been a geography and statistics editor for leading reference publishers. As a Research Manager at Wolfram|Alpha, she contributed to the rapid expansion and improvement of its knowledge base. With a Ph.D. in economic geography, Chandrika has also worked with economic development organizations, specializing in international trade development. She is the author of three statistical handbooks as well as several geography reference books.
Maria is a Venezuelan lawyer, currently pursuing an M.A. in International Development at the Elliott School with a concentration in Democracy and Governance. Maria has over four years of professional experience, including work with the Latin-American Dialogue and the National Democratic Institute. She conducts research for Open Data Watch.
June takes care of budget matters at ODW. Her background includes work at a CPA firm and a decade in the European Department of the IMF, handling economic data analysis and management, budget projections, and production of reports for country lending assessments, as well as related web design. Before IMF, she worked at the World Bank on economic research for the Africa Department. June has a Master’s in Business Administration and certifications in Web Development and Graphic Design.