PEOPLE
- Leadership
- Team
- Research Affiliates
- Advisory Board
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

Zinnya del Villar
RESEARCH DIRECTOR, DATA SCIENCE

Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva
Chief Economist

Natalie Grover
Managing Director

Julie Ricard
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
| Technology and Democracy |

Nigora Isamiddinova
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
| Resilient Livelihoods & Ecosystems |

Talla Ndiaye
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
| Just Digital Transformations |

Andrés Lozano
STRATEGIC PLANNING DIRECTOR

Ivette Yáñez Soria
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Team

Nigora Isamiddinova
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
| Resilient Livelihoods & Ecosystems |
Tunisia
Russian, Uzbek, English, French, Spanish

Mateo Rojas
PROGRAM & RESEARCH MANAGER
| Just Digital Transformation,
AI & Statistics for the SDGs |
Colombia
Spanish, English

Sara Ortiz
PROGRAM & RESEARCH MANAGER
| AI & Statistics for the SDGs, Communications |
Colombia
Spanish, English

Enrique Bonilla
DATA SCIENTIST & PRODUCT MANAGER
| AI & Statistics for the SDGs, Geographies of Inequalities |
Mexico
Spanish, English

Anas Filali
PROJECT MANAGER
| Just Digital Transformation,
AI & Statistics for the SDGs |
Morocco
Arabic, French, Spanish, English

Agustina Pérez Mirianco
PROJECT & ANALYTICAL RESEARCH MANAGER
| Geographies of Inequalities |
Uruguay
Spanish, English, French

Ndeye Aminata Ngom
PROJECT & RESEARCH MANAGER
| Just Digital Transformations, Resilient Livelihoods and Ecosystems |
Senegal
French, English, Wolof

Guillermo Romero
RESEARCHER & DATA SCIENTIST
| Resilient Livelihoods & Ecosystems |
Mexico
Spanish, English

Adjani Gama Dessavre
COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENTIST
| Just Digital Transformations |
Mexico
Spanish, French, English

Mireille Haddad
JUNIOR DATA SCIENTIST
| AI & Statistics for the SDGs,
Resilient Livelihoods & Ecosystems |
Lebanon
Arabic, French, English

Nelson Papi Kolliesuah
PROJECT & RESEARCH OFFICER
| Resilient Livelihoods
& Ecosystems |
Liberia
English

Santiago Ruiz
PROJECT & RESEARCH OFFICER
| AI & Statistics for the SDGS, Resilient Livelihoods & Ecosystems |
France
Spanish, French, English

Jasmine Erkan
PROJECT & RESEARCH OFFICER
| Just Digital Transformations |
Germany
English, Turkish, German

Yara Antoniassi
RESEARCH & DATA ANAYLIST
| Just Digital Transformations, Geographies of Inequalities |
Brazil
Portuguese, English, Spanish

Maram Tebini
RESEARCH & CONTENT INTERN
| Resilient Livelihoods & Ecosystems, AI & Statistics for the SDGs |
Tunisia
Arabic, French, English
Research Affiliates

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)

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

Julie Ricard
Board Member & Research Affiliate

Lanah Kammourieh
Ph.D. Candidate in International Law

Linnet Taylor
Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Amsterdam

Magdalena Arbeláez
Researcher

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

Silvia Rodrigues Follador
researcher

Simone Sala
Senior Advisor, ICT for Development
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
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
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