International Open Data Conference 2015

Peter Taylor is Program Manager for the Think Tank Initiative. Before joining IDRC, Peter was the Leader of the Participation, Power and Social Change Team, at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, where he spent 6 years. Prior to that, he worked as a... Read More →

Kate Higgins leads the DataShift at CIVICUS, the World Alliance for Citizen Participation.  She joined the DataShift in 2015.  Previously, she led the Governance for Equitable Growth program at The North-South Institute in Ottawa, was a Research Fellow at the Overseas Developm... Read More →

Shannon Kindornay is an Adjunct Research Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Her research focuses on development cooperation, global governance, and aid and the private sector. Prior to joining Carleton University, Ms. Kindornay... Read More →

Professor Mustafizur Rahman is an economist by training. He is currently serving as Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka, Bangladesh, prior to which he served as CPD’s Executive Director. Earlier Dr Rahman had taught in the University of Dhaka where he was... Read More →

Maam Suwadu Sakho-Jimbira hold a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, University of Montpellier I and a Master's in Economic Sciences, University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis, with a specialization in agricultural and development economics. She formerly worked for national and international... Read More →