Kristen Himelein is a Senior Economist / Statistician with the East Asia & Pacific region of the Poverty Global Practice at the World Bank. She also co-leads on the Global Solution Group on welfare measurement and data innovation and is an adjunct professor in survey methods at Georgetown University. Her research interests center on sampling and survey statistics, and her work has been published in the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Official Statistics, and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, among others.