Visualizing Progress: Data Insights From the SDG Atlas 2023 | The World Bank | 21 June 2023 | Online

This events is a visual resource showcasing the role of data in achieving the SDGs and highlighting the areas where data gaps negatively impact prospects of progress. It provides decision-makers, the development community, academics, journalists, and the public with timely data to guide decisions on what policy choices to make at mid-point in the implementation of the SDGs.

With this event, offices the World Bank Group Chief Economist and the World Bank Chief Statistician aim to:

• demonstrate, through interactive storytelling and data visualizations, the critical role of data in achieving the SDGs and how the availability of timely and granular data can help guide policymaking that leads to measurable positive outcomes,
• identify data-related challenges to accelerate progress in the attainment of the SDGs,
• discuss how innovation and partnerships have helped and will remain critical to helping overcome data-related obstacles to get the SDGs back on track.

2023 Speakers

SPEAKERS:

Indermit Gill
Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics

Haishan Fu
Chief Statistician of the World Bank; Director of the Development Data Group of the World Bank Group

Umar Serajuddin
Manager, Development Data Group, The World Bank Group

Ola Awad
President, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)

Alan AtKisson
Assistant Director-General and Director, Partnership and Innovation Department, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

Francesca Perucci
Assistant Director, UN Statistics Division (UNSD)

Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Vice President and Head of Design & User Experience, Gapminder