Information and knowledge-based organizations rely extensively on the handling, processing and presentation of data of different kinds, employing both hard and soft skills. This session will discuss topics such as data governance, data privacy, data visualization and Big Data analysis, from the perspective of the data skill sets that international organizations increasingly seek. The objective of the session is to gather requirements towards a curriculum for educating data scientists who can tackle the unique and rapidly evolving data challenges facing the UN and other Inter-Governmental Organizations, as well as Non-Governmental Organizations and diplomatic missions. The concrete outcome of this multi-stakeholder session will be a listing of data skills, with a particular focus on skills needed for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and practical ways to think about capacity development in the field, based on multi-stakeholder partnerships between academia, industry and international organizations.