Gay Buenaseda-Tejada is a Program Officer for strategic planning at the World Bank’s Development Data Group. Gay joined the Bank in 2020 to lead the country engagement operations of the 50x2030 Initiative, a partnership program on agricultural development addressing agricultural data gaps. She is responsible for developing operation protocols and manuals, and establishing strategic cooperation and coordination of partners, among others.
Gay is a development management and public administration expert with experience working with national governments, regional institutions, and international organizations. She specializes in providing technical assistance and advisory services in statistical capacity development, institution strengthening, national and regional statistics strategy planning, program management, financing, policy advice, and advocacy.
Prior to joining the Bank, Gay was the Regional Program Coordinator for Asia-Pacific and Small Island Developing States of PARIS21 (Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century) hosted at the OECD and Lead Coordinator of the Philippine Statistical System at the then National Statistical Coordination Board, Government of the Philippines. She holds an M.A. in Public Administration from the International Christian University and a Master of Research and Development Management from the University of the Philippines.
