# GLOBAL CHANGE DATA LAB

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1186433
- **Other names:** GCDL
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [11725483](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11725483)
- **Registered:** Nov. 19, 2019
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1186433


## Contact

- **Address:** Global Change Data Lab, Urbanoid Workspace, 1 &amp;amp;3 Kings Meadow, OXFORD
- **Postcode:** OX2 0DP
- **Phone:** 01865 403178
- **Email:** info@ourworldindata.org
- **Website:** https://global-change-data-lab.org/



## Activities

**Objects:** THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF HOW GLOBAL LIVING CONDITIONS AND THE EARTH’S ENVIRONMENT ARE CHANGING, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THROUGH THE PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC ONLINE RESOURCES PRESENTING OBJECTIVE, IMPARTIAL RESEARCH AND RIGOROUS FACTUAL ANALYSIS, FULL, ACCURATE AND RELEVANT INFORMATION TO ASSIST SUCH PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND TO INFORM AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PUBLIC DEBATE.SUCH PURPOSES SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS AND AT ALL TIMES BE CONSTRUED AND PROMOTED:(I) IN AN IMPARTIAL, OBJECTIVE, BALANCED AND INDEPENDENT MANNER OBSERVING STRICT POLITICAL NEUTRALITY, AND(II) EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW RELATING TO CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

**Activities:** Global Change Data Lab is an educational charity with a focus on large global problems and international development. The charity&#x27;s flagship project is the web publication Our World in Data, where we focus on communicating data and research to make progress against the world&#x27;s largest problems.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- Throughout England





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **Hetan Shah** | Chair | Sept. 13, 2022 |
| Dr Claire Helen Melamed |  | Jan. 1, 2025 |
| Michael Iain Blastland |  | Jan. 1, 2025 |
| Prof WENDY JOAN CARLIN |  | Dec. 13, 2018 |
| Rachel Glennerster |  | Sept. 1, 2023 |
| Sir Andrew William Dilnot CBE |  | Sept. 1, 2023 |




