Albert Motivans is the Head of Data and Research for Equal Measures 2030, a civil society and private sector-led data and advocacy initiative.

He develops innovative approaches to identify and visualise new and existing sources of development data and to strengthen the technical capacity of national advocates to use data to improve policies and development outcomes.

He led the design and analysis of the most comprehensive global tool to measure the status of girls and women - the SDG Gender Index - which was launched in June 2019.

Prior to joining Equal Measures 2030, he led education statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics where he oversaw the compilation of the global education database and efforts to communicate, visualise and analyse data.

He has worked in the fields of data and development for the UNICEF Office of Research and the U.S. Census Bureau and has published widely on the use of data to inform policies in child welfare, education, and gender equality.

He is a member of various global technical task forces, advisory groups and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

Divyanshi Wadhwa is a Junior Data Scientist with the Development Data Group at the World Bank and works on the World Development Indicators and Gender Statistics.

She was an editor for the SDG Atlas 2020 and is passionate about using data visualizations to communicate development data effectively.

Prior to joining the Bank, Divyanshi worked as a Research Assistant at an international development think tank, Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington DC. During her time at CGD, she focused her research on private sector development and illicit financial flows and helped launch a data visualization venture.

An Indian national, Divyanshi holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Delhi, India and a Master’s in Public Policy from Georgetown University.

John Burn-Murdoch is the Financial Times’ chief data reporter, and creator of the FT’s coronavirus trajectory tracker charts.

He has been leading the FT’s data-driven coverage of the pandemic, exploring its impacts on health, the economy and wider society.

When pandemics are not happening, he also uses data and graphics to tell stories on topics including politics, economics, climate change and sport, and is a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ Data Science Institute.

Marie Segger is a data journalist for The Economist and covers a broad range of subjects from a quantitative perspective.

She is the editor of Off the Charts, The Economist's weekly data newsletter, which launched in February 2021. She reports on inequality, politics and cultural trends.

Marie is an experienced public speaker who regularly gives talks and guest lectures about journalism, data and data visualisations.

Prior to joining The Economist in 2017, Marie was Spiegel Online’s Google News Lab fellow and she has written for a number of publications in both Britain and her native Germany.

Michael Green is Chief Executive Officer of the Social Progress Imperative.

An economist by training, he is co-author (with Matthew Bishop) of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World and The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society.

Previously Michael served as a senior official in the U.K. Government’s Department for International Development, where he managed British aid programs to Russia and Ukraine and headed the communications department.

He taught Economics at Warsaw University in Poland in the early 1990s. His TED Talks have been viewed more than four million times, and his 2014 Talk was chosen by the TED organization as one of the ‘most powerful ideas’ of 2014 and by The Telegraph as one of the 10 best ever.

In 2016, he was named one of “The 100 Most Connected Men in Britain” by GQ Magazine and one of the NonProfit Times’s “Power & Influence Top 50.” Michael is @shepleygreen on Twitter.

Pamela Duncan is the acting editor of the Guardian’s Data Project team, producing high quality and exclusive data stories.

She covers a range of topics including MPs receiving money from fossil fuel interests, health waiting lists, asylum issues and recently worked on the international Pandora Papers investigation.

She can usually be found at her desk poring over spreadsheets, translating non-machine readable PDFs into a usable format and using coding skills - most often a combination of scraping and regex - to build datasets from previously unstructured data.

She is a self-declared data evangelist who forces her love of data upon her colleagues, and offers them training whenever her workload allows.

She has taught as a visiting lecturer in data journalism at City, University of London and trained journalists at conferences including DataHarvest, VVOJ, NICAR and the CIJ Summer School. She has also written a bespoke data curriculum to teach journalists in developing countries.

Saamah Abdallah has worked for 15 years on the application of wellbeing science to policy and the promotion of alternative indicators of progress.

He was part of the original team that developed the Happy Planet index, and has worked on various other alternative indicators, including the Thriving Places Index, the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, and the Santa Monica Wellbeing Index.  

He has advised various organisations on the measurement of wellbeing including Eurostat, Eurofound, the OECD and the UK Office for National Statistics.

In 2016, he won the Community  Indicators  Consortium  award  as  an  emerging  leader  in  the  field  of  community conditions  and  wellbeing. 

Simon Anholt is a policy advisor, author and researcher who has provided global leadership and innovation in the public, private and nonprofit  sectors. His core expertise includes the design and implementation of approaches that track, analyse and influence perceptions and behaviours at the global scale, and developing new approaches for tackling 21st-century global challenges.

Anholt has advised the Heads of State and Heads of Government of 60 countries, helping them engage more ethically, imaginatively and strategically with the international community (including for example Bhutan’s groundbreaking Gross National Happiness initiative and the widely imitated StartUp Chile program). His original work on measuring and managing the images of countries has developed into a global industry. This work has been supported since 2005 by the Anholt-Ipsos Nation Brands Index, a research framework which has accumulated over a billion datapoints.

In 2014, he published the Good Country Index (GCI), a ranking that analyses how much each country on earth contributes to humanity and the planet. Via a custom-built online interface, users can manipulate 28,000 simultaneous variables. The GCI is one of only three external data sources referenced in the United Nations’ 75th Anniversary Report in 2021, and features in the Annual Report of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Further work is being conducted, in partnership with UNDP, to combine data from the GCI and the Human Development Index.

In 2016, Anholt built the Global Vote, a digital platform that enables anyone anywhere to vote on the elections of other countries: a celebration and a demonstration of global interconnectedness and interdependence. Voters from 186 countries have so far participated in 31 elections.

In 2017, he launched a pilot project to create the first digital nation, with a of 700 million identified citizens. Using an AI-driven deliberation platform and blockchain-based voting, the project proved the viability of an entirely self-governing nation.

In 2018, Anholt created the Good Leader Index, a monthly review of the leaders who are currently doing the best (and worst) job of balancing their domestic and international responsibilities.

In 2019 he announced the Good Generation, a plan for the whole world to agree on a new set of values, virtues and skills that every country on earth will teach its children, so the next generation is empowered to run towards the global challenges instead of running away from them. The Good Generation compact will be crowdsourced via an AI-moderated, natural language online conversation between children, parents and teachers in 200 countries and territories.

He co-presents, with Prof. Nick Cull at the University of Southern California, the podcast People, Places and Power. Anholt is the author of six books on ethical geopolitics, Founding Editor Emeritus of the leading academic journal in the field he created, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, and is a ten-times TEDx speaker. His first TED talk is the all-time most viewed TED talk in the ‘Government’ category with over 12 million views, and is ranked by viewers as the fourth “most inspiring” of all TED talks. His new book, The Good Country Equation, was described by Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as “a masterpiece”.

Anholt has a Master’s degree in computational linguistics, anthropology and medieval French and Italian literature from Oxford University. He read International Studies at the UK’s Royal College of Defence Studies and holds an honorary Professorship in Political Science at the University of East Anglia. He served as Vice-Chair of the UK Foreign Office’s Public Diplomacy Board for 9 years, and as a Parliamentarian of the European Cultural Parliament. He is a member of the External Stakeholders Board of the Aurora Alliance of European Universities. In 2009 Professor Anholt was awarded the Nobels Colloquia Prize for Economics by a committee of 10 Nobel economists, and in 2010 the Award for Excellence in Sustainable Development at the 7th Multicultural Forum in Paris.