Gender Data for the SDGs

Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer, Facebook Sheryl Sandberg is Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm's business operations. She also serves on Facebook’s board of directors. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Clinton, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank. Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with the highest distinction from Harvard Business School. Sheryl is the co-author of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy with Wharton professor and bestselling author Adam Grant. She is also the author of the bestsellers Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and Lean In for Graduates. She is the founder of the Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to build a more equal and resilient world through two key initiatives, LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org. Sheryl serves on the boards of Facebook, Women for Women International, ONE, and SurveyMonkey. Sheryl lives in Menlo Park with her fiancé and their five children.

Marcy Scott Lynn Director of Global Impact Partnerships, Facebook Marcy Scott Lynn is Director of Global Impact Partnerships at Facebook. Her team focuses on building partnerships and programs that are rooted in Facebook’s mission to give people the power to build communities and bring the world closer together. These efforts include enabling progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and deepening the connection between community building and philanthropy. Prior to joining the Partnerships team, Marcy spent seven years on Facebook’s public policy team managing a portfolio of work focused on impact areas including privacy, crisis response, charitable giving, and news literacy. Prior to joining Facebook, Marcy was the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Sun Microsystems (and Oracle following its acquisition of Sun). She spent her early career working in politics and government, and as a strategic communications consultant with a focus on issues management and corporate responsibility. Marcy has an MBA from the University of California Haas School of Business and a BA from Boston University. She serves on the board of Camp Tawonga, a nonprofit dedicated to fostering in children and families a deep connection to nature, community, and Judaism within a warm, welcoming, and inclusive environment. Marcy is a (former) marathoner and triathlete and lives in San Francisco with her husband and two daughters.

Talip Kilic Senior Economist, World Bank Talip Kilic is a Senior Economist at the World Bank Development Data Group; a member of the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) team; and a core team member for the World Development Report 2021 on Data for Better Lives. His research focuses on poverty, agriculture, and gender in low-and middle-income countries, as well as survey methodology to improve the quality, timeliness, and policy-relevance of household and farm surveys. In the latter line of work, objective measurement, including through sensor deployment; research on policy implications of non-classical measurement error in survey data; and integration with geospatial, census, administrative and mobile data are of interest to him. As an expert in complex household survey design, implementation, and analysis. Talip is the Team Leader for the LSMS Programs on Innovations in Data, and Gender and Human Capital; leads the LSMS+ Initiative on improving the availability and quality of individual-and sex-disaggregated survey data, and serves in an advisory role for the LSMS-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA)-supported surveys in Malawi and Uganda as well as the USAID-financed Feed the Future Surveys that are integrated into the LSMS-ISA-supported surveys in Guatemala, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania. He is originally from Istanbul, Turkey, and has a Ph.D. in Economics from the American University in Washington, DC, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Knox College in Galesburg, IL.

Tara Cookson Co-Founder and Director, Ladysmith Dr. Tara Patricia Cookson is the Co-founder and Director of Ladysmith, a feminist research consultancy that helps international organizations collect, analyze and take action on gender data. Her award-winning book, Unjust Conditions: Women’s Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs, illustrated the gendered perils of defining ‘data’ too narrowly in one of the world's preferred anti-poverty programs. In partnership with Facebook earlier this year, Tara and her team published the report, Building Alliances for Gender Equality: How the Tech Community Can Strengthen the Gender Data Ecosystem. She has served as co-author and substantive editor of UN Women’s flagship research report, Progress of the World’s Women, and has provided technical and strategic advice on gender data, development, and social protection to partners including UN institutions, Global Affairs Canada, USAID, and the OECD-DAC. Tara earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.