The Role of Data in Sustainable Development with Jean-Louis Sarbib

Breaking Boundaries: A podcast from Northwestern University’s Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

This episode focuses on United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16: peace, justice and strong institutions and the role data and information can play in helping developing countries achieve sustainable development. Jean-Louis Sarbib has built a career working across boundaries of public and private international organizations and national governments to address this important challenge. He shares insights into the current challenges facing the field of international development today and how open access to data and information may help solve some of these challenges.