Emmanuel Letouzé

Emmanuel Letouzé (born 1975) is a French development economist, economic demographer, and political cartoonist. He is known for his research on the role of data and digital technologies in the field of human development. In 2012, he wrote the white paper "Big Data for Development" for the United Nations Global Pulse.

Letouzé is the co-founder and director of Data-Pop Alliance, a non-profit organization that explores the potential applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in advancing sustainable development. He is also affiliated with several prominent academic institutions, including the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the MIT Media Lab, and the Overseas Development Institute.

Letouzé is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he teaches a class on "Gender Data for Gender Equality". He is also an adjunct professor at Sciences Po Paris, where he teaches on "Technology for Global Challenges". Previously, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

His work lies at the intersection of human development and data science, especially the applications and implications of digital data and technologies for sustainable development, official statistics, poverty and inequality, criminality, migration, gender equality, monitoring and evaluation, conflict and fragility, press freedom, privacy, data and algorithmic governance, public health, and "human artificial intelligence". Provided by Wikipedia