Biography: Sunita Malhotra has been working with the World Bank in India for more than 16 years, now. She believes in the power of knowledge and works to empower the youth by organizing discussions, trainings and hosting knowledge sessions at various youth events. She conducts “Open Data and Open Development” trainings which help inform academicians, researchers, policy makers, think tanks, civil society organizations, students, bureaucrats, journalists about the World Bank’s data resources and knowledge products. These trainings are conducted in accordance to the World Bank’s Access to Information policy.
Sunita has also organized and facilitated discussions by Senior Economists of the World Bank at many educational institutions of repute in India, including the Indian Institute of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, national and private universities. Prior to joining the Bank, she has worked at the American Centre, within the private sector and for an NGO as well as a library-management software company called LIBSYS.  She has pursued two Masters’ in the field of Library Science and Mathematics from Delhi University.  Since 1980s, she has been working on automation and digitization of libraries.