Presented by Gwen Thomas on September 30, 2015

Bio:

Gwen Thomas — World Bank Group Gwen Thomas is a Data Governance pioneer, helping to define and evangelize the field. Founder of the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and primary author of the DGI Data Governance Framework and guidance materials found at www.datagovernance.com, she has influenced hundreds of programs around the globe. In the spring of 2013, Gwen joined the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, as their Corporate Data Advocate. Her dual focus has been internal alignment of data-centric accountabilities across an IFC program involving dozens of IT systems and projects, and collaborating with counterparts across the World Bank Group as part of a re-aligned, federated model of data management and governance.

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