Dr. Katinka Weinberger, Chief of Environment and Development Policy Section (EDPS) at UNESCAP, talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Asia-Pacific region, and about what the UN is doing to advance sustainable development amidst a pandemic.

Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre on historic events & how they affect the way we project the future using data.

Gavi's Guillaume Grosso shares reasons to be optimistic and talks about access to vaccines, the role of data & communications experts to fight misinformation.

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Sarah Hendriks, Director of the Programme, Policy and Intergovernmental Division at UN Women on how far the world has come with regards to gender equality, how far we still have to go, and what the impact of COVID-19 has been.

PARIS21 hears from Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO, about how COVID-19 has highlighted the urgent need to bolster trust in data and science, as well as international cooperation, in order to reduce inequality worldwide.

Sida Assistant Director-General Alan AtKisson speaks with PARIS21 Executive Head Johannes Jütting about the effects of the pandemic on Sida's partner countries, and the work being done to address both short- and long-term development issues.

(featuring music from Alan AtKisson)

President and CEO of the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) Maroof Syed discusses CERP's cross-cutting approach to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, including its Smart Containment with Active Learning (SCALE) plan.

Learn more about CERP and SCALE: https://bit.ly/2Ysw84J

(Episode in German) PARIS21 Executive Head Johannes Jütting and Georges-Simon Ulrich, Director-General of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office, discuss the importance of data you can trust in times of crisis like COVID-19.

EDGE Certified Foundation co-founder Aniela Unguresan joins Data for the People to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on data production and use.

Learn more about EDGE Certification: https://edge-cert.org