Ramesh Chander

Datuk Ramesh Chander (19 August 1935 – 14 November 2023) was a Malaysian development economist and statistician. Her served as Chief Statistician of Malaysia, and Statistical Adviser at the World Bank.

Chander pioneered the development of the Malaysian statistical system and was instrumental in the development of the New Economic Policy after 1969. In 1977, he was invited to join the World Bank as its Statistical Adviser. At the Bank, he designed the World Bank's flagship statistical abstract, the [http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators/ World Development Indicators]. In his capacity as the Statistical Adviser, he was actively engaged in statistical capacity-building in member countries. He also played a major role in the development of statistical standards, which included the 1993 System of National Accounts and the methodology for the World Bank's [http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/lsms/about Living Standards Measurement Survey] program for collecting household data.

After retiring from the World Bank in 1996, he became an independent consultant and took on several assignments. He founded an independent consultancy named the Cresset Research Group (CRG). The CRG was actively engaged in advising international development institutions and countries in the creation of sustainable statistical systems. Provided by Wikipedia