Matthew Welch is a Program Manager and Senior Statistician in the World Bank’s Development Data Group. He manages the Data Quality work program for the Indicators and Statistics Unit. He also manages the World Bank Microdata Library.
Matthew is experienced in implementing survey data archiving and dissemination best practice at National Statistics Offices in developing countries. This includes expertise in statistical disclosure control (anonymization).
Prior to joining the World Bank, Matthew worked as an Economist for more than 15 years at the University of Cape Town, Saldru and DataFirst. Primarily working on social survey design, implementation, archiving and the data management and dissemination process. He also worked extensively on the establishment and management of survey data archives, survey data analysis, and the implementation of open‐source technologies, online survey analysis, and dissemination software.
Matthew holds a Master of Commerce degree (Economics) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.