Transforming Healthcare and Governance Through Government Data

Daniel Rogger manages DIME's unit on Governance and Institution Building. His areas of interest are political economy, and organizational and public economics. Dan’s research aims to understand how to build organizations that effectively deliver public services. He does large scale surveys and research in collaboration with civil service organizations across the world. Dan did his PhD in economics at University College London (UCL), his Masters in Economics at the University of Cambridge, and his undergraduate degree in economics at UCL. Previously, he has worked as an Economist in the Presidency of Nigeria, an Associate Researcher for the UK's Department for International Development, and as a PhD scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. 

Olena is a Senior Health Economist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She serves as a task team lead, overseeing the preparation and implementation of lending operations while driving strategic partnerships and health policy dialogue. Since joining the World Bank in 2015, Olena has led impactful programs in Ukraine and Belarus, focusing on strengthening national health systems through investment projects and technical assistance. She holds an MSc in Health Policy, Economics, and Management, as well as a PhD in Public Administration.

Michael Lokshin is Lead Economist with the Office of the Chief Economist for Europe and Central Asia, at the World Bank. Prior to that, Michael was a Lead Economist and Manager in the Development Data Group of the World Bank. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 after which he joined the research group at the World Bank as a Young Economist (YE program). His research focuses on the areas of poverty and inequality measurement, labor economics, and applied econometrics. More recently he has been involved in the Bank's efforts to develop the methodology of evaluating the effect of crisis and public policies on households in developing countries. He also leads the group of researchers in development of the Software Platform for Automated Economic Analysis (ADePT).