Shaohua Chen is a Lead Statistician in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. She manages the Global Poverty database and all developing countries’ poverty, inequality estimations at the World Bank since 1991. Her research has focused on poverty and inequality measurement, and program/policy impacts evaluation. Before joining the World Bank, she was the lecturer of business school of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. She received her Master's Degree in Statistical Computing from American University.