TReNDS’ members are leaders in the data community whose expertise spans the spectrum of global and national data policies, standards, and processes that guide data production, access, and use.
Co-Chairs
Current Members
Lisa Bersales
Professor of Statistics, University of the Philippines
Geoffrey Boulton
University of Edinburgh, UK
Jillian Campbell
UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada
Calogero Carletto
The World Bank, USA
Samantha Custer
AidData, USA
University of Bristol, UK
Alex Fischer
Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI), Australia
Dilek Fraisl
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
Jonathan Glennie
Global Nation, Colombia
William Hoffman
Scale AI, USA
Jeanne Holm
City of Los Angeles, USA
Andrea Gardeazábal Monsalve
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico
Tom Moultrie
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Virginia Murray
Health Security Agency, UK
Tom Orrell
Development Gateway: An IREX Venture, UK
Francesca Perucci
Open Data Watch, USA
Philipp Schönrock
Centro de Pensamiento Estratégico Internacional (Cepei), Colombia
Eduardo Sojo
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico
Former Members
Sabina Alkire
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Institute (OPHI), UK
Laveesh Bhandari
Indicus Foundation, India
Gilberto Câmara
Group on Earth Observations (GEO), Switzerland
Robert S. Chen
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Kate Crawford
AI Now, USA
Nicolas de Cordes
Orange, France
Xiaolan Fu
University of Oxford, UK
Melika Edquist (Secretariat Staff)
USA
Chukwudozie Ezigbalike
Formerly United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Ethiopia
Enrico Giovannini
Rome University ‘Tor Vergata,’ Italy
Bram Govaerts
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico
Bronwyn Harch
University of Queensland, Australia
Guo Huadong
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Molly Jahn
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Marc Levy
CIESIN, USA
Emmanuel Letouzé
Data-Pop Alliance, USA
Steven Ramage
Group on Earth Observations (GEO), Switzerland
Barbara Ryan
World Geospatial Industry Council, Switzerland
Keith Shepherd
World Agroforestry Centre, Kenya
Eric Swanson
Open Data Watch, USA