Talip Kilic is a Program Manager at the World Bank Development Data Group and a member of the World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) team. He was also a core team member for the World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives.

As an expert in complex household surveys, he manages the LSMS Methodology and Tools Program and serves in an advisory role for LSMS-supported national statistical offices and large-scale household surveys. Talip has also been leading the LSMS+ Project on improving the availability and quality of individual-disaggregated survey data; the LSMS High-Frequency Phone Surveys; the World Bank Knowledge for Change Program-funded programmatic research project “Understanding Trends in Sub-National Differences in Economic Well-Being in Low-Middle Income Countries;” as well as the Gender- and Earth Observation-related methodological research activities supported by the 50x2030 Initiative. Relatedly, he serves as a co-chair of the United Nations Task Team on Earth Observation.

Talip’s research focuses on poverty, agriculture, and gender in low- and middle-income countries, as well as survey methodology to improve the quality, timeliness, and policy-relevance of household and farm surveys. In the latter line of work, (i) methods for individual-level survey data collection; (ii) objective measurement, including through sensors; (iii) research on policy implications of non-classical measurement errors in survey data; and (iv) integration of surveys with geospatial, census, administrative, social media, and mobile data are of special interest.

Talip is originally from Istanbul, Turkey, and have a Ph.D. in Economics from American University in Washington, DC, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Knox College in Galesburg, IL.