Emmanuel Letouzé

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Emmanuel Letouzé

Emmanuel Letouzé is an economic demographer, development economist and political cartoonist who focuses on data and development. He is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the Director and co-Founder of Data-Pop Alliance, a not-for-profit organization focusing on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and human development created in 2013 with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab and Overseas Development Institute, where he holds research affiliations. 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, inequality, criminality, migration, gender equality, fragile states, press freedom and democratic governance.

Biography

Letouzé was born in Brittany, France. After studying at Lycée Henri IV, he received a BA in Political Science and an MA in Applied Economics and Economic Demography from Science Po Paris;, an MA in International Affairs at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs on a Fulbright fellowship, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation titled "Applications and Implications for Call-Detail Records for Demo-Economic Analysis". He completed his post-doctoral research at the MIT Media Lab in Alex 'Sandy' Pentland's Human Dynamics Group. Between 2000 and 2004, Letouzé worked in Hanoi, Vietnam for the French Ministry of Finance, leading a technical assistance project on "Economic Governance" with the Vietnamese General Statistics Office and Ministry of Finance. He then worked as an Economist for the United Nations Development Programme in New York between 2005 and 2009, on fiscal policy and fiscal space for poverty reduction, post-conflict economic recovery, and migration as part of the 2009Human Development Report research team. In 2011, he joined UN Global Pulse in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General where he wrote the White Paper "Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities". In 2013, he co-founded Data-Pop Alliance and in 2016 he co-founded the Open Algorithms (OPAL) project, which he directed from 2017 to 2020. In 2021, Letouzé joined the Universitat Pompeu Fabra as a Marie Curie Fellow. As a cartoonist, under the alias "Manu", he has published political and editorial cartoons and illustrations in France and the US.

Data-Pop Alliance

Letouzé co-founded Data-Pop Alliance with Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Patrick Vinck and Claire Melamed, with initial seed funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. Data-Pop Alliance is a non-governmental organization with a global team and scope of work. Its aim is to "change the world with data" through three pillars of work: diagnosing local realities and human problems with data and AI; mobilizing capacities, communities, and ideas towards more data literate societies; and, ultimately, transforming the systems and processes that underpin societies and countries.

From 2014 to 2020, Data-Pop Alliance was hosted by ThoughtWorks in New York City. In 2018, it opened a regional office in Mexico City and in 2021, a regional office in Dakar, Senegal.

In a 2015 interview with KD Nuggets about the creation of Data-Pop Alliance, Letouzé said:

I had the idea of creating 'something' like Data-Pop Alliance since about late 2012, after I left Global Pulse where I worked and wrote the White Paper "Big Data and Development" in 2010–11. That paper was my 1st foray into what was then a tiny field, and it opened doors. I was back in UC Berkeley working on my PhD in 2012–13, and was increasingly involved in the field as it started growing, talking at a few conferences, writing a few articles—and I wanted to build something lasting with a bit of a different feel and focus compared to what existed (Global Pulse, DataKind, for instance). I wanted to create something more academic with a greater emphasis on capacity building, on politics, and work with partners in developing countries

Data-Pop Alliance currently operates projects in over 20 countries, with staff located in Latin America, the MENA region and Europe. Some of its key partners are UNDP, the GIZ, UNESCO, WFP, DIAL, UN-ESCWA, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications. According to its Annual Report 2020–22, its thematic priorities are:

Data for Resilient, Sustainable, and Peaceful Societies and Livelihoods Strategic Evaluation and Elaboration of Ethical Digital Transformations Gender Inequities, Violence, and Data Disparities Big Data and Open Algorithms (OPAL) for Official Statistic(ian)s Digital Spaces, Platforms, Blockchains, and Data Literacy for Democracy.

Publications

On Big data and development:

• Bravo, M. A., Letouzé, E., Oliver, N., and Shoup, N. (2021). "Policy Paper: Using Data to Fight COVID-19 – And Build Back Better". Vodafone Institute.
• Bravo, M. A., Casasbuenas, V., Letouzé., E. and Lozano, A. (2020). "Definición de la estrategia de Big Data para el estado colombiano y para el desarrollo de la industria de Big Data en Colombia". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Clavijo, A., Letouzé, E., Loaiza, I., Pentland, A., Ricard, J., and Silva, D., (2019) "Recomendaciones e insumos para la definición de una estrategia nacional de Big Data". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Araujo, G., Bravo, M. A., Casasbuenas, V., Letouzé, E., Pentland, A., Loaiza, I., and Wladawsky-Berger, I. (2019) "Propuesta de plan de implementación de la estrategia de Big Data para el Estado". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Bravo, M. A., Casasbuenas, V., Letouzé, E. Lozano, A., Pentland, A., and Wladawsky-Berger, I. (2019). "Impacto económico y social de la implementación de la estrategia". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Letouzé, E., Pestre, G. and Zagheni, E. (2019). "The ABCDE of big data: assessing biases in call-detail records for development estimates." The World Bank Economic Review.
• Letouzé, E., and Oliver, N. (2019). "Sharing is Caring Four Key Requirements for Sustainable Private Data Sharing and Use for Public Good". Data-Pop Alliance and Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, London.
• Hunt, A., et al. (2019). "Women in the gig economy: paid work, care and flexibility in Kenya and South Africa". ODI.
• Chiara, F. D., Letouzé, E., Lizzi, A., Mazariegos, C., and Stock, M. (2019). "Harnessing Innovative Data and Technology to Measure Development Effectiveness". Southern Voice.
• Letouzé, E., and Tandefelt, L., (2019) "Evaluación de nuevas herramientas y técnicas del big data para proyectos del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo". Data-Pop Alliance.
• De Nadai, M., Gonzales, M., Lepri, B., and Letouzé, E. (2018). "Characterizing and analyzing urban dynamics in Bogotá. Big Data to address global development changes". AFD Research Paper Series. No. 2018-70. pp. 5–21.
• Letouzé, E., and Pentland, A. (2018). "Towards a human artificial intelligence for human development". ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, Special Issue, (2).
• Letouzé, E. (2018). "Panorama setorial da internet: Big Data e desenvolvimento: Uma visão geral". Panorama Setorial Da Internet, 10(1), 1–11.
• Cañon, V., Clavijo, A., Godoy, L., Letouze, E., Pestre, G., and Ricard, J. (2018). "Estado del arte y análisis comparativo de estrategias nacionales de Big Data". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Letouze, E. and Sankoya, D. (2017). "How to use Big Data? Leading experts' roadmap to data-driven innovation projects". Vodafone Institute.
• Letouze, E., Pestre, G., and Zaghnei, E. (2016). "The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-detail records for Development Estimates". Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics.
• Letouzé, E., Areias, A., and Jackson, S. (2016). "Chapter 12: The Evaluation of Complex Development Interventions in the Age of Big Data". Dealing With Complexity in Development Evaluation: A Practical Approach. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publishing.
• Letouzé, E. (2016). "Applications and Implications of Big Data for Demo-Economic Analysis: The Case of Call-Detail Records". Doctoral dissertation, UC Berkeley.
• Letouzé, E., and Sangokoya, D. (2015) "Big Data and Privacy: Understanding the Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Data Revolution in Germany". Vodafone Institute.
• Kammourieh, L., et al. (2017). "Group privacy in the age of big data". in: Group Privacy (pp. 37–66). Springer, Cham.
• Letouzé, E. (2015). "Big data and development: General overview primer". Data-Pop Alliance White Paper Series.
• Letouze, E. (2015). "Big Data & SDGs note for Global Sustainable Development Report". Data-Pop Alliance.

On migration:

• Fiorio, L., Zagheni, E., Abel, G., Hill, J., Pestre, G., Letouzé, E., and Cai, J. (2021). Analyzing the Effect of Time in Migration Measurement Using Georeferenced Digital Trace Data". Demography. Duke Press.
• Lepri, B., Letouzé, E., Pentland, A., and Salah, A. (2019). Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios. Springer, Berlin.
• Salah, A. et al. (2018). "Data for refugees: the D4R challenge on mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey". arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00523.
• Fiorio, L., Zagheni, E., Abel, G., Hill, J., Pestre, G., Letouzé, E,. and Cai, J. (2017). "Understanding patterns of human mobility at different time scales". PAA 2018 Annual Meeting. April (pp. 26–28).

On crime and violence

• Letouzé, E., Lepri, B., De Nadai, M., González, M. C., Letouzé, E., and Xu, Y. (2020). ["https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Socio-economic-built-environment-and-mobility-conditions-associated-with-crime.pdf "Socio-economic, built environment, and mobility conditions associated with crime: a study of multiple cities"]. Scientific reports.
• Bogomolov, A., Lepri, B., Letouzé, E., Oliver, N., Pianesi, F., and Pentland, A. (2015). "Moves on the street: Classifying crime hotspots using aggregated anonymized data on people dynamics". Big data, 3(3), 148–158.

Official statistics:

• Oliver, N, et al. (2020). "Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle". Sciences Advances.
• Letouzé, E. (2018). "Retrouver le sens de la mesure pour de meilleures décisions collectives: vers une intelligence artificielle humaine à l'ère des données". Regards croises sur l'economie, (2), 47–55.
• Letouze, E. (2018) Mobiliser et humaniser la Révolution des Données pour la statistique publique, le développement et la démocratie". PNUD Togo.
• Cañon, V., Clavijo, A., Letouze, E., Pestre, G., and Ricard, J. (2018). Buenas prácticas sobre cómo los gobiernos pueden implementar una estrategia para estimular el ecosistema de negocios Big Data". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Letouzé, E., Pestre, G., Manske, J., and Sangokoya, D. (2016). "Oportunidades y requerimientos para aprovechar el uso de Big Data para las estadísticas oficiales y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Jütting, J. and Letouzé, E. (2015). "Official statistics, big data and human development". Data-Pop Alliance White Paper Series.

Algorithmic governance:

• Letouzé, E., et al. (2019) "Diagnóstico de la situación actual de Colombia estructurado alrededor de las seis dimensiones". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Lepri, B., Letouzé, E., Oliver, N., Pentland, A., and Vinck, P. (2018). "Fair, transparent, and accountable algorithmic decision-making processes". Philosophy & Technology, 31(4), 611–627.
• Letouzé, E., and Sangokoya, D. (2015). "Leveraging Algorithms for Positive Disruption: On data, democracy, society and statistics". Data-Pop Alliance.
• Lepri, B., Letouzé, E., Oliver, N. Sangokoya, D., and Staiano, J. (2017). "The tyranny of data? The bright and dark sides of data-driven decision-making for social good". Springer.

Affiliations and awards

• Member of the European Commission's Expert Group on Facilitating the use of private data for official statistics (March 2021 – March 2022)
• Marie Curie Fellow, Socio-Demography Group, Department of Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (February 2021 – February 2023)
• Visiting Scientist, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (May 2020 – present)
• Fellow, MIT Connection Science (2015–present)
• Research Associate, Overseas Development Institute (2014–present)
• Member of the Technical Advisory Group, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (2017–present)TRENDS
• Member of 2015–18 Panel Big Data and Population Processes of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
• Member of the Program Committee of the 1st and 2nd editions of the UN World Data Forum (2017 and 2018)
• University of California Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2013–2014)
• J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Columbia University, 2004–2005)
• Sasakawa Foundation Young Leader Fellowship Grant for research in Hanoi, Vietnam (2005)
• Invited Member of the Cartoon Movement (2014–present)

Cartooning

Je suis Charlie panel

Letouzé is a political cartoonist under the pen name "Manu". He was the editorial cartoonist of French regional magazine L'Union for 7 years, from 1997 to 2004, publishing over 350 cartoons. He has also contributed political cartoons to the weekly magazine Politis, news website Rue89, and to the satirical website Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like. He held a solo exhibition at The Invisible Dog Art Center in New York in 2011, and became an appointed member of the Cartoon Movement in 2012.

Cartoon by Manu

In 2011, he took part in the response to the first attack against Charlie Hebdo's offices on Rue89, and contributed cartoons to the campaign for marriage equality in France. In January 2015, he published a tribute to Charlie Hebdo cartoonists titled "They Killed My Idols" in the Nib and in February 2015, he participated in a debate organized by PEN America, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) on "After Charlie: What's next for art, satire, and censorship?" at FIAF with Art Spiegleman, Molly Crabapple and Francoise Mouly.

He has contributed cartoons and illustrations to several humanitarian publications and campaigns, including for the Sphere project, which set widely recognized humanitarian assistance standards, and the International Peace Institute's Management Handbook for UN Peacekeeping missions.

He regularly uses cartoons in his papers and presentations and in 2020 he spoke at the UN World Data Forum about the influence of his work as a cartoonist on his work as an economist.