Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas

Oscar Barriga-Cabanillas is an Economist working for The World Bank in the Southeast Asia team of the Poverty and Equity practice. His work in recent years has focused on developing tools for the targeting of social programs using spatial and mobile phone data, and creating protocols that expand eligibility to vulnerable households. He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis and an MSc degree in Economics from Universidad de los Andes. 

Paul Corral

Paul Corral is a Senior Economist with the Poverty & Equity Team as the team lead of the Vietnam program, based in Hanoi. He is also the global co-lead for the Poverty and Equity Policy Lab, a global initiative aimed at providing distributional analysis of policy reforms. Paul led the work on the Guidelines to Small Area Estimation for Poverty Mapping and has published in the areas of small area estimation, agricultural development, income diversification, and human capital accumulation.

Dr. Nur Chamidah

Dr. Nur is of the Mathematics Department, Faculty of Science and Technology Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia. She is a dedicated lecturer in Statistics in the Bachelors Study Program and head/coordinator of the Mathematics Masters Study Program, Universitas Airlangga.

She is constantly contributing to Indonesia growth as head of Statistical Modelling in Life Sciences research unit, mainly focusing on multi-response nonparametric and semiparametric regression, local linear estimator, and local polynomial regression.