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LETOUZÉ, EMMANUEL

EMMANUEL LETOUZÉ
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Emmanuel Letouzé joined the SocioDemography Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra as a Marie Curie Fellow in February 2021, where his research project will focus on understanding the drivers, effects and measurements of different types of crimes (homicides, gender-based violence) in Latin America. Prior to joining UPF, he founded Data-Pop Alliance, a not-for-profit organization on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and human development with the MIT Media Lab, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and Overseas Development Institute, where he is a Connection Science Fellow, a Visiting Scientist and a Research Associate, respectively. He previously worked as a Development Economist at UNDP in New York (2006-10) on poverty, post-conflict recovery and migration, and in Vietnam for the French government as a Technical Assistant in public finance and official statistics (2000-04). He holds a BA in Political Science and an MA in Applied Economics-Economic Demography from Sciences Po Paris, an MA in International Affairs-Economic Development from Columbia University, where he was a Fulbright Fellow, and a PhD in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley (2016), where his dissertation focused on Big Data for demo-economic research. 

Dr. Emmanuel Letouzé will stay with us from February 2021 to February 2023.