Emmanuel Letouzé

Emmanuel Letouzé (born 1975) is a French development economist, economic demographer, and political cartoonist. He is known for his pioneering work on the roles of data and digital technologies in development. In 2012, he authored the 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 dedicated to exploring the intersection of Big Data, statistics, technology, and Artificial Intelligence in human development. He is affiliated with multiple prominent institutions, including the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the MIT Media Lab, and the Overseas Development Institute.

He serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, where he teaches "Gender Data for Gender Equality", and as an adjunct professor at Sciences Po, where he instructs a course titled "Technology for Global Challenges". Previously, he held a Marie Curie Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University.

His work examines 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