Shaida Badiee,

Shaida Badiee, an Iranian national, is director of the Development Economics Data Group at the World Bank. The Data Group maintains the World Bank's major economic and social databases and publishes the annual World Development Indicators, the World Bank Atlas, and Global Development Finance (Volume II). The Data Group is also the focal point for the World Bank's support for statistical capacity building and follow up to the Marrakech Action Plan for Statistics, which provides a road map for improving global statistics involving many partners, users, and producers. Ms. Badiee is a member of a number of statistical coordination groups and works closely with key partner agencies on raising the profile of better statistics for managing development results, harmonization of statistical work, and support for capacity building to developing countries.  She is a lead manager of the International Comparison Program (ICP).  Her educational background is in computer science and information management with a MS degree and teaching experience in this field at the George Washington University, prior to joining the World Bank in 1977.