Muchiri serves as the Executive Director at the Local Development Research Institute (LDRI) and is a Senior Fellow at Results for Development. He previously served as the Deputy Executive Director and Policy Lead at the Open Institute Trust and worked on open data and open government projects at the national and sub-national level. He has more than 20 years of experience working on software development and technology innovation for those living on irregular income in Africa, online strategy for African organizations, and public policy implementation for development data. His work explores the implementation of international initiatives, their impact on local development, and how empowering policy actors and citizens with the right data can result in better development outcomes for all.
Read MoreTom Orrell is the Founder and Managing Director of DataReady, a UK-based consultancy that supports the development of good data governance practices in the sustainable development and humanitarian sectors. Recently, Tom led a team of consultants advising the WHO on its data sharing policies and is working with civil society groups in Africa to establish a network that can advocate for responsible COVID-19 related data use.
Read MoreSince 2016, TReNDS expert Steven Ramage has been leading global stakeholder engagement and external relations for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), an intergovernmental partnership promoting the value and usefulness of Earth observations (EO) for research, policy, decisions and action.
Read MoreTReNDS member Philipp Schönrock is the Director of Cepei, an independent think tank that he founded in 2003. He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Programme Committee of the UN World Data Forum.
Read MoreTReNDS co-chair Shaida Badiee is the Managing Director for Open Data Watch. She brings several decades of experience in managing global development statistics as the long-time Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group.
Read MoreTReNDS member Molly Jahn is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she holds appointments in the Department of Agronomy, the Global Health Institute and the Nelson Institute, having served as the 12th Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Director of the Wisconsin Experiment Station.
Read MoreTReNDS member Bram Govaerts is Director, Innovative Business Strategies & Representative Americas at Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT). Since 2007, Govaerts has led the Latin America Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Intensification strategy at CIMMYT.
Read MoreTReNDS co-chair Robert Chen is Director of CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, a research unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. He manages the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), part of NASA’s network of Earth science data centers and a regular member of the World Data System of the International Science Council.
Read MoreTReNDS member Jeanne Holm is Deputy CIO and Senior Tech Advisor to the Mayor, City of Los Angeles, and a Distinguished Instructor at UCLA. As a leader in open data, education, and civic innovation, she empowers people to discover new knowledge and collaborate to improve life on Earth and beyond.
Read MoreTReNDS co-chair Laveesh Bhandari is an Indian data scientist and economist, author, columnist, and entrepreneur. He is currently the Director of Indicus Foundation where he is spearheading a range of activities on the environment.
Read MoreTReNDS member Dilek Fraisl works for the Center for Earth Observation and Citizen Science at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), while at the same time pursuing her PhD in Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna.
Read MoreTReNDS member Virginia Murray is the Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction for Public Health England, as well as a co-chair or member of various disaster risk management committees and research networks.
Read MoreTReNDS member Tom Moultrie is an academic demographer whose recent work has focused on assessing and enhancing the quality of public data - particularly censuses - in developing countries to improve the evidence base for measuring and monitoring progress towards meeting the SDGs.
Read MoreTReNDS member Samantha Custer leads AidData’s efforts to produce rigorous analysis of official finance investments worldwide, conduct performance assessments of the development cooperation activities of governments and international organizations, and more.
Read MoreTReNDS member Jonathan Glennie is a writer and researcher on poverty and human rights, looking at the changing nature of development cooperation as global paradigms and relationships evolve.
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