Haishan Fu
Director, Development Data Group, The World Bank Group
Haishan Fu is the Director of the World Bank’s Development Data Group and Co-Chair of the Bank’s Development Data Council. In this capacity, Haishan leads and coordinates the development and implementation of the Bank’s development data agenda. She has been an active leader in the global statistical community, having served or currently serving as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development, Council Member of the International Statistical Institute, and Co-Chair of the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities among over 45 UN and other international development agencies, among others. Prior to joining the Bank in 2014, Haishan was Director of the Statistics Division at UNESCAP, served as the first Chief of Statistics of UNDP’s Human Development Report, and worked as Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Haishan holds a Ph.D. in Demography from Princeton University and a B.A. in Economics from Peking University.
Brian King
Coordinator, CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture
Brian King leads the Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, a global program of the CGIAR consortium centered on the digital transformation of food systems worldwide. He has led programs leveraging successive waves of transformational digital technologies, including establishing early internet networks and policies, building sustainable rural internet, licensing of mobile operators, governance of submarine cables and cross-border backbone networks, developing digital strategies for an array of clients, and building more inclusive mobile financial services, most of this in developing economies. Brian will speak to trends in digital agriculture innovation and concrete cases from developing economy contexts.
Medha Devare
Senior Research Fellow, Module Lead, CGIAR Big Data Platform; International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI)
Medha Devare is an agronomist and microbial ecologist with experience in bioinformatics, data management, and semantic web standards. She is a Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI. She leads one of the three Modules of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, spearheading efforts to operationalize the FAIR Principles towards Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable data. Prior to this, she led the CGIAR System‘s Open Access and Open Data Initiative, and as a Scientist with CIMMYT, coordinated a project to increase the productivity and profitability of small farmers and the sustainability of farming systems in western Nepal. Before moving to CIMMYT, Medha worked at Cornell University, where she also received a PhD and helped develop VIVO, a semantic web application to represent research and scholarship.
Robert J. Hijmans
Professor, University of California, Davis
Robert Hijmans is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. He received a PhD in Production Ecology and Resource Conservation from Wageningen University and has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, and South America. Robert uses spatial data science approaches to answer questions related to agricultural development, biodiversity, gender, nutrition, and health. He is also well-known for producing widely used spatial data and software.
Julian Ramirez
Senior Scientist on Climate Impacts & Leader, Data Science for Climate Action, CGIAR
Julian Ramirez is a Senior Scientist on Climate Impacts & Leader, Data Science for Climate Action, CIAT with a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Leeds. Julian joined CIAT after a postdoctoral fellowship to lead research on climate impacts and adaptation. Julian’s research spans disciplines, including climate change adaptation, crop modeling, agro-meteorology, biodiversity conservation, and geographic information systems. Julian has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, including in high-impact journals such as PNAS and Nature. His work on climate adaptation has been internationally recognized by the United Nations. In the Alliance, Julian leads a team of young and talented researchers with expertise in agriculture, food systems and climate modeling, climate change, and geographic information systems.
Holly Krambeck
Senior Economist, Development Data Group, The World Bank Group
Holly Krambeck is a Program Manager in the World Bank's Development Economics Analytics and Tools team. She founded and leads the Development Data Partnership (https://datapartnership.org/ ) -- a partnership between international organizations and companies, created to facilitate the responsible use of third-party data in international development. Prior to her current assignment, she was a Task Team Leader, responsible for a $950 million portfolio of transportation infrastructure loans and technical assistance grants in East and Southeast Asia. Her technical assistance program helped transport agencies improve the efficiency and efficacy of their data collection, management, and analysis for decision making.
Parmesh Shah
Global Lead, Data-driven and Digital Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank
Parmesh Shah is the Global Lead for Data-Driven Digital Agriculture at the World Bank. He provides leadership to Bank’s work in these areas and supports the development of global knowledge and learning in these areas to offer solutions to clients and other development partners. His current areas of interest are economic and social organizations and networks of the poor, making markets and public services work for the poor, social entrepreneurship, digital and data-based innovations in agriculture and rural development, promotion of on-farm, and off-farm jobs and public-private and people partnerships for rural poverty reduction. He is currently involved in developing a regional program on scaling up digital agriculture in the Africa region involving setting up ecosystems for entrepreneurship and incubation. He holds a D Phil in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and B-Tech degree in Agricultural Engineering from Pantnagar in India.
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