PEOPLE

Leadership

Emmanuel Letouzé

Director & Co-Founder

Patrick Vinck

CO-Director & Co-FOUNDER

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Academic Director

Nuria Oliver

Chief Data Scientist

Bruno Lepri

Senior Scientific Advisor & Research Affiliate

Phuong Pham

Director of Evaluation and Implementation Science at hhi

Emma Samman

Executive Committee Member

Nicolas de Cordes

Director of Operations and Marketing

Zinnya del Villar

Director of Technology, Data, and Innovation

Natalie Grover

Managing Director

Julie Ricard

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
| Technology and Democracy |

Andres Lozano

Andrés Lozano

STRATEGIC PLANNING DIRECTOR

Ivette yanez 2025

Ivette Yáñez Soria

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Anna Spinardi

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
| Data Feminism |

Team

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Buthaina Alabrash

INTERN
| Data Science |

Lebanon
English, Arabic

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Bárbara Battistotti Vieira

PROJECT AND RESEARCH OFFICER
| Data Feminism |

Brazil 
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian

Enrique Bonilla

DATA SCIENTIST & DATA ENGINEER
| AI & Statistics for the SDGs, Geographies of Inequalities |

Mexico
Spanish, English 

Angela Paola Caile

GRAPHIC & WEB DESIGNER
| Communications |

Colombia
Spanish, English 

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Kun Chen

JUNIOR SPATIAL DATA SCIENTIST
| Data Science |

Italy
Chinese, English, Italian

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Nicolas de Cordes

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND MARKETING

Ireland
English, French, Dutch

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Anthony Deen

MANAGER
| Communications |

United States
English

Zinnya del Villar

Director of Technology, Data, and Innovation

Mexico

Spanish, French, English

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Maynara do Rio Sales

INTERN
| Data Feminism |

Brazil
Portuguese, English, Spanish

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Marc Gallifa Giraldo

UX/UI DESIGNER
| Data Science |

Spain/Turkey
English, Catalan, Spanish, German

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Adjani Gama Dessavre

DATA SCIENTIST & FRONT-END DEVELOPER
| Just Digital Transformations |

Mexico 
Spanish, French, English

Luis Garcia Rueda

OFFICER
| Operations |

Mexico
Spanish, English

Natalie Grover

Managing Director

Mexico

English, Mandarin, Spanish,

Portuguese

Nelson Papi Kolliesuah

PROJECT & RESEARCH MANAGER
| Resilient Livelihoods & Ecosystems |

Liberia 
English

Evelin Lasarga

PROJECT & RESEARCH MANAGER
| Just Digital Transformations |

Uruguay
Spanish, English

Emmanuel Letouzé

Director & Co-Founder

 

Spain

French, English

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Laila Lorenzon

MANAGER
| Development & Partnerships |

France
Portuguese, English, French

Andres Lozano

Andrés Lozano

STRATEGIC PLANNING DIRECTOR

Colombia
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese

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Zahra Maarouf

VOLUNTEER
| Data Science |

United Arab Emirates
Arabic, English, Danish

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Manassé Eliantus Michel

OFFICER
| Resilient Livelihoods & Ecosystems |

Canada
Haitian Creole, French, English

Diana Montero

OFFICER
| Operations |

Mexico
Spanish, English, Korean

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Lázaro Jesús Pérez Lugo

DATA SCIENTIST & DATA ENGINEERING OFFICER
| Data Science |

Mexico
Spanish, English

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Agustina Pérez Mirianco

PROJECT & ANALYTICAL RESEARCH MANAGER
| Geographies of Inequalities |

Uruguay
Spanish, English, French

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Amanda Quitério de Gois

COMMUNICATIONS AND RESEARCH OFFICER
| Communications, Technology & Democracy |

Brazil 
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French

Julie Ricard

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
| Technology & Democracy |

Brazil
Portuguese, French, English, Spanish

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Letícia Sakihama De Menezes Hora

PROJECT AND RESEARCH OFFICER
| Technology & Democracy |

Brazil 
Portuguese, English, Spanish

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Abubakar Sani Abdullahi

OFFICER
| Development & Partnerships |

Nigeria
English, Hausa

Alina Sotolongo

DATA SCIENTIST & MACHINE LEARNING OPERATIONS OFFICER
| Data Feminism |

Mexico
Spanish, English

Anna Spinardi

PROGRAM DIRECTOR
| Data Feminism |

Brazil
Portuguese, Spanish, English

Ivette Yáñez Soria

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR

Mexico
Spanish, English

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Yasmin Yazdi

DATA SCIENTIST & MACHINE LEARNING OPERATIONS OFFICER
| Data Science |

Germany
Persian, English, German

Research Affiliates

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Arwa ElGhadban

RESEARCH AFFILIATE

Germany 
Arabic, English, German

Albert Ali Salah

Professor, Utrecht University

Carla Bonina

Research affiliate

Dharani Dhar Burra

Resident Data Scientist, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Gianni Barlacchi

Computer Engineer & PHD candidate University of Trento & FBK MOBS Lab

Ingmar Weber

Research Director for Social Computing,
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)

Irene Clavijo

Research Consultant

Colombia

Spanish, English

 

 

Jen Welch

Ph.d. Candidate, Southhampton University, Co-founder & Co-director of Build UP

Jesse Anttila-Hughes

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of San Francisco

Juan Camilo Mejia

RESEARCH AFFILIATE

Julia Manske

Researcher

Lanah Kammourieh

Ph.D. Candidate in International Law

Linnet Taylor

Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Amsterdam

Maria Antonia Bravo

Measurement & Evaluation Expert

United Kingdom

Spanish, English

Marion Dumas

Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute

Natalie Shoup

RESEARCHER

Rodrigo Lara Molina

data scientist & Research Affiliate

Sabrina Juran

Technical Specialist, Population Data & Analysis, UNFPA

Sam Fraiberger

Data Scientist World Bank Group

Simon Chignard

RESEARCH AFFILIATE

Simone Sala

Senior Advisor, ICT for Development

Till Koebe

Research Affiliate

Thomas Roca

Data Strategist, Microsoft

Advisory Board

Lucy Bernholz

Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center on Philanthrophy & Civil Society

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Policy Dialogue, Chair of Southern Voice on Post-MDG Internat

Haishan Fu

Director, World Bank Development Data Group

Gary King

Professor & director of iqss, harvard university

Paul Ladd

Director, UN research institute for social development

Michael VanRooyen

Director of HHI & Professor, Harvard University

Erik Wetter

Co-founder & Chairman, Flowminder Foundation

Steering Committee

Nicolas de Cordes

Vice President of Marketing Anticipation, Orange

Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva

Chief Economist, Data-Pop Alliance

William Hoffman

Head of Data-Driven Development, World Economic Forum USA

Johannes Jütting

Manager, PARIS21 Initiative

Alessia Lefébure

Alliance Program Director and Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University

Advisory Board

Lucy Bernholz

Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center on Philanthrophy & Civil Society

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Policy Dialogue, Chair of Southern Voice on Post-MDG Internat

Haishan Fu

World Bank Chief Statistician and Director of Development Data Group

Gary King

Professor & director of iqss, harvard university

Paul Ladd

Director, UN research institute for social development

Michael VanRooyen

Director of HHI & Professor, Harvard University

Erik Wetter

Co-founder & Chairman, Flowminder Foundation