Connecting data dots between people, prosperity and the planet: A World Bank vantage point

Umar Serajuddin ‘96 will return to campus for a conversation moderated by Lomus Pudasaini ‘25 (Economics) and Lillian Caldwell ‘26 (Economics). This discussion explores pathways, out of the current polycrisis, to achieve progress toward eradicating poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. The conversation is centered on the findings of the World Bank’s newly released Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis, which provides the first post-pandemic global assessment of poverty and shared prosperity. 

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While at Middlebury, Umar will also participate in the IP&E 2024 Annual Symposium: Prosperity, Sustainability, and the Future of Global Finance. Learn more here.

Umar Serajuddin is a Manager at the World Bank’s Development Data Group, in charge of its Indicators and Data Services unit. He leads the Bank’s Open Data initiative and oversees the management of the World Development Indicators (WDI). He manages the teams that publish some of World Bank’s most prominent global public goods, including the global poverty numbers (PIP), the Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI), the World Integrated Trade Solutions (WITS), the Microdata Library, and Open Data Catalogue (Development Data Hub). He also coordinates the Bank’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) monitoring initiatives and, most recently, the production of the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals. Umar holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and has published work in the fields of poverty, inequality, and social protection.

This event is part of the Middlebury Alums Global Sustainability Speaker Series.  

Sponsored by Sustainability & Environmental Affairs, Climate Action Program, Center for Careers & Internships, Department of Economics, midd.data