Malarvizhi Veerappan

WDR2021 Report Manager, World Bank Development Data Group

Malarvizhi Veerappan (@malarv) is the report manager for WDR 2021. As a senior data scientist at the World Bank, she manages the Data Management & Services Program, leading the team that works on statistical data management and supports the production of the World Development Indicators, data.worldbank.org, and the Bank’s data catalog. Ms. Veerappan was part of the task team that launched The World Bank's Open Data Initiative in 2010, and established the Development Data Hub which streamlines data sharing.  She is co-leading efforts to make the evidence on gender data gaps more accessible. An engineer by education, Malar is pursuing an advanced degree in Applied Data Sciences.