Romesh Silva

Romesh Silva, is a demographer and statistical consultant with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). Since 2001, he has led HRDAG projects in India, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Chad, and Bangladesh and also contributed to projects in Colombia, Sierra Leone, Guatemala and Liberia.

Romesh has co-authored a number of policy-related reports and scholarly publications on the statistics of large-scale human rights violations in conflict zones.

Through his work in Sri Lanka, he devised statistical methods to measure the reliability of data coding methods in human rights documentation projects. These methods have subsequently been used in human rights projects in Colombia, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Timor-Leste. His work in Timor-Leste also led to the adaptation of survey design methods used in public health to measure conflict-related mortality and conflict-related migration in Timor-Leste. His work in Chad resulted in new ways to engage questions of command responsibility of the Chadian secret police using the secret police's own administrative records.

Romesh previously served as a Statistical Consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Laos, where he provided quantitative analysis for the 2001 Lao National Human Development Report and served as a technical advisor to the Lao Ministry of Finance in the upgrade of its international trade statistics system. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons, Class 1) in Statistics and a B.A. in German Studies from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York, and a Masters of Arts in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his work with HRDAG, Romesh is pursuing a Ph.D. through the Demography Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

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