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

Jessica Espey  University of Bristol, UK

Alex Fischer
Paul Ramsey Foundation, Australia

Dilek Fraisl
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Jonathan Glennie
Independent consultant, Colombia

William Hoffman
Scale AI, USA

 

Jeanne Holm
City of Los Angeles, USA

Emmanuel Letouzé
Data-Pop Alliance, USA

Andrea Gardeazábal Monsalve
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico

Tom Moultrie
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Virginia Murray
Public Health England, UK

Muchiri Nyaggah
Local Development Research Institute, Kenya

Tom Orrell
DataReady, UK

Francesca Perucci
UN Statistics Division, 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

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

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