Emmanuel Letouzé
{{Multiple issues|{{COI|date=January 2025}}
{{notability|bio|date=March 2025}}
{{rewrite|date=March 2025}}
{{Peacock|date=January 2025}}}}
{{Infobox scientist
| image = Picture of Emmanuel Letouzé.jpg
| name = Emmanuel Letouzé
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1975}}
| birth_place = Rennes
| nationality = French
| alma_mater = {{hlist|Lycée Henri-IV|Sciences Po|Columbia University|University of California, Berkeley}}
| thesis_title = Applications and Implications of Call-Detail Records for Demo-Economic Analysis
| thesis_url = https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2451x046
| thesis_year = 2016
| doctoral_advisor = {{hlist|[https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/profile/ronald-d-lee Ronald D. Lee]|Edward Miguel|[https://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks Jennifer Johnson-Hanks]}}
| field = {{hlist|Demography|development economics|official statistics|big data and artificial intelligence for human development|cartooning}}
| work_institutions = {{hlist|French Ministry of Finance|UNDP|UN Global Pulse|MIT Media Lab|Data-Pop Alliance|Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona}}
}}
Emmanuel Letouzé (born 1975) is a French development economist, economic demographer, and political cartoonist. He is known for his research on the role of data and digital technologies in the field of human development. In 2012, he wrote the white 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 that explores the potential applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in advancing sustainable development. He is also affiliated with several prominent academic institutions, including the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the MIT Media Lab, and the Overseas Development Institute.{{cite web |date= |title=Emmanuel Letouzé |url=https://connection.mit.edu/emmanuel-letouze |access-date=13 January 2021 |website=MIT Connection Science}}{{cite web |title=Emmanuel Letouzé: Research Associate |url=https://odi.org/en/profile/emmanuel-letouze/ |access-date=20 January 2022 |website=ODI}}
Letouzé is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he teaches a class on "Gender Data for Gender Equality". He is also an adjunct professor at Sciences Po Paris, where he teaches on "Technology for Global Challenges". Previously, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.{{cite web |title=AI for the Planet Digital Conference |url=https://aifortheplanet.org/en/attendee/2971bd1a-8982-eb11-b566-000d3a20ecf5 |access-date=6 July 2021 |website=AI for the planet}}
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,{{cite web |last1=Letouzé |first1=Emmanuel |title=Thoughts on Big Data and the SDGs |url=https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/7798BigData%20-%20Data-Pop%20Alliance%20-%20Emmanuel%20Letouze.pdf |website=UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development |publisher=United Nations |access-date=14 January 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Letouzé |first1=Emmanuel |title=Big Data: What is it and how can it contribute to Sustainable Development |url=https://www.unsdglearn.org/microlearning/big-data-what-is-it-and-how-can-it-contribute-to-sustainable-development/ |website=UN SDG:Learn |publisher=United Nations System Staff College |access-date=14 January 2022}} official statistics,{{cite web |author=Letouzé, E. |author2=Jütting, J. |title=Big Data, Official Statistics and Human Development |url=https://www.paris21.org/sites/default/files/WPS_OfficialStatistics_June2015.pdf |website=PARIS21 |access-date=14 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Pestre |first1=Gabriel |last2=Letouzé |first2=Emmanuel |last3=Zagheni |first3=Emilio |title=The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-Detail Records for Development Estimates |journal=World Bank Economic Review |date=February 2020 |volume=1 |issue=Supplement 1 |page=S89–S97 |doi=10.1093/wber/lhz039 |doi-access=free |hdl=10986/36153 |hdl-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Roca |first1=Thomas |last2=Letouzé |first2=Emmanuel |title=La révolution des données est-elle en marche ? Implications pour la statistique publique et la démocratie |journal=Afrique Contemporaine |date=February 2016 |issue=258 |pages=95–111 |doi=10.3917/afco.258.0095 |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-afrique-contemporaine-2016-2-page-95.htm|doi-access=free }} poverty and inequality, criminality,{{cite journal |last1=De Nadai |first1=Marco |last2=Xu |first2=Yayan |last3=Letouzé |first3=Emmanuel |last4=Gonzáles |first4=Marta C. |last5=Lepri |first5=Bruno |title=Socio-economic, built environment, and mobility conditions associated with crime: a study of multiple cities |journal=Scientific Reports |date=17 August 2020 |volume=13871 (2020) |issue=10 |page=13871 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-70808-2 |pmid=32807802 |pmc=7431538 |arxiv=2004.05822 |s2cid=215745299 }} migration,{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=F. |last2=Zagheni |first2=E. |last3=Abel |first3=G. |last4=Hill |first4=J. |last5=Pestre |first5=G. |last6=Letouzé |first6=E. |last7=Cai |first7=J. |title=Analyzing the effect of time in migration measurement using geo-referenced digital trace data |journal=Demography |date=1 February 2021 |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=51–74 |doi=10.1215/00703370-8917630 |pmid=33834241 |pmc=8055474 |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/58/1/51/167589/Analyzing-the-Effect-of-Time-in-Migration |access-date=14 January 2022}} gender equality, monitoring and evaluation, conflict and fragility,{{cite journal |last1=Letouzé |first1=Emmanuel |last2=Vinck |first2=Patrick |last3=Meier |first3=Patrick |title=Big Data for Conflict Prevention: When the New Oil Meets Old Fires |journal=Ipi, Undp, Usaid |date=April 2013 |issue=Special Issue on New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict |pages=4–28 |ssrn=2902494 |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2902494 |access-date=14 January 2022}} press freedom, privacy,{{cite journal |last1=De Montjoye |first1=YA |last2=Gambs |first2=S |last3=Blondel |first3=V |last4=et |first4=al |title=On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data |journal=Scientific Data |date=2018 |volume=5 |issue=5 |page=180286 |doi=10.1038/sdata.2018.286 |pmid=30532052 |pmc=6289108 |bibcode=2018NatSD...580286D }} data and algorithmic governance,{{cite journal |last1=Lepri |first1=Bruno |last2=Oliver |first2=Nuria |last3=Letouzé |first3=Emmanuel |last4=Pentland |first4=Alex |last5=Vinck |first5=Patrick |title=Fair, Transparent, and Accountable Algorithmic Decision-making Processes |journal=Philosophy and Technology |date=December 2018 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=611–627 |doi=10.1007/s13347-017-0279-x |hdl=1721.1/122933 |s2cid=67165792 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13347-017-0279-x|hdl-access=free }} public health,{{cite journal |last1=Oliver |first1=Nuria |last2=Lepri |first2=Bruno |last3=Sterly |first3=Harald |last4=Lambiotte |first4=Renaud |last5=Letouzé |first5=Emmanuel |last6=Pentland |first6=Alex |last7=Phuong |first7=Pham |last8=Vinck |first8=Patrick |last9=De Nadai |first9=Marco |last10=Ali Salah |first10=Albert |last11=Pivetta |first11=Frédéric |last12=Benjamins |first12=Richard |last13=Murillo |first13=Juan |last14=Koebe |first14=Till |last15=Lehman |first15=Sune |last16=Deletaillle |first16=Sébastien |last17=Coliza |first17=Vittoria |last18=De Cordes |first18=Nicolas |last19=Cattuto |first19=Ciro |last20=Tizzoni |first20=Michele |last21=Verhulst |first21=Stefaan |last22=Scarpino |first22=Samuel V. |last23=Saramäki |first23=Jari |last24=Fraiberger |first24=Samuel |title=Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle |journal=Science Advances |date=6 June 2020 |volume=6 |issue=23 |pages=eabc0764 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.abc0764 |pmid=32548274 |pmc=7274807 |bibcode=2020SciA....6..764O }}{{cite journal |last1=Kaneda |first1=Toshiko |last2=Ashford |first2=Lori |last3=Letouzé |first3=Emmanuel |title=Demystifying Big Data for Demography and Global Health |journal=Population Reference Bureau Population Bulletin |date=13 January 2022 |volume=76 |issue=1 |url=https://www.prb.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/population-bulletin-vol-76-no1-demystifying-big-data.pdf/ |access-date=16 January 2022}} and "human artificial intelligence".{{cite journal |last1=Letouzé |first1=Emmanuel |last2=Pentland |first2=Alex |title=Towards a Human Artificial Intelligence for Human Development |journal=ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries |date=6 December 2018 |volume=1 |issue=2 |url=https://www.itu.int/en/journal/002/Pages/15.aspx |access-date=15 January 2022}}{{cite web|title=Emmanuel Letouzé (Data Pop Alliance), Dark Days or a Brighter Tomorrow? {{!}} GIZ tech2D 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrfyYt8C3mc|access-date=7 January 2022|website=Youtube| date=18 October 2018 }}{{cite web |title=Emmanuel Letouzé's keynote on "Human Artificial Intelligence for Societal Resilience" at the Herrenhausen Conference "Extreme Events - Building Climate Resilient Societies" on October 10, 2019 in Hannover | date=24 November 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMurK1qiVuA |publisher=Volkswagen Foundation |access-date=24 January 2022}}
Early life and career
After studying at Lycée Henri IV, he received a BA in Political Science and Economics and an MA in Applied Economics specialized in Economic Demography from Sciences Po Paris, the latter with field work at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in Dakar, Senegal, an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs on a Fulbright fellowship, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on "Applications and Implications of Call-Detail Records for Demo-Economic Analysis"{{cite web |last1=Letouzé |first1=Emmanuel |title=Applications and Implications for Call-Detail Records for Demo-Economic Analysis |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2451x046 |website=eScholarship |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=16 January 2022}} under the supervision of Ronald Lee, Edward Miguel and Jennifer Johnson-Hanks. He completed his post-doctoral research in 2016-17 at the MIT Media Lab in Alex 'Sandy' Pentland's Human Dynamics Group.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
Between 2000 and 2004, Letouzé worked in Hanoi, Vietnam for the French Ministry of Finance and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leading a technical assistance project on Economic Governance with the Vietnamese General Statistics Office, Ministry of Finance, and National Assembly.{{cite web |url=https://odi.org/en/profile/emmanuel-letouze/ |website=Overseas Development Institute |access-date=6 July 2021|title=Emmanuel Letouzé }} He then worked as an Economist for the United Nations Development Program 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 2009 Human Development Report research team.{{cite web|title=Human Development Report 2009 "Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development"|date=January 2009 |url=http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-report-2009|access-date=13 January 2021}} 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".{{cite web |last1=Letouzé |first1=Emmanuel |title=Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities |url=https://www.unglobalpulse.org/document/big-data-for-development-opportunities-and-challenges-white-paper/ |publisher=United Nations Global Pulse |access-date=16 January 2022}} He was then the lead author of the 2013 OECD Fragile States report, which proposed to "move away from a “thin”, formal conceptualization of fragility centered on the state, towards a “thick”, substantive understanding centered on the quality of state-society relations.
In late 2013, he co-founded Data-Pop Alliance{{cite web |url=https://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/04/interview-emmanuel-letouze-big-data-economic-development.html |website=KD nuggets |access-date=6 July 2021|title=Interview: Emmanuel Letouzé, Data-Pop Alliance on the Role of Big Data in Economic Development }} and in 2016 he co-founded the Open Algorithms project (OPAL),{{cite web|last1=|first1=|last2=|first2=|last3=|first3=|last4=|first4=|last5=|first5=|title=OPAL: Open Algorithms for Better Decisions {{!}} Emmanuel Letouzé {{!}} WEF 2019|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iyLHwtQMV4|access-date=13 January 2022|website=Youtube|date=17 March 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Pentland |first1=Alex |last2=Letouzé |first2=Emmanuel |title=OPAL's vision to leverage data for societal development |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/599ef170197aeac586fed53f/t/5aec74d96d2a73f371173625/1525445849695/OPAL+Project+Vision+Note.pdf |website=OPAL Project |publisher=OPAL (2017) |access-date=17 January 2022}} which he directed from 2017 to 2020. In 2021, Letouzé joined the Universitat Pompeu Fabra as a Marie Curie Fellow.{{cite web |title=LETOUZÉ, EMMANUEL |url=https://www.upf.edu/web/demosoc/entry/-/-/U193813/adscripcion/emmanuel-letouzé?__cf_chl_captcha_tk__=75f26ee7aeea545a7b6ef19038a69cb2c7512358-1625609756-0-AWHygOY-D92OjUxNPwnYucr8qJ-2yjU1VGnfr5lmeyN6RI93yqWPbihNweVTlLGMIW5I3BDKwnDD7ILUKQtqIXuB1mezyCuCyTtBzBxA6wybOG31KGorTm8HlQr35wcM5Bw4ewWaMPXSrWfF8eqrCdYe-d5CwrnWtxcTRZs51duLP2dNuxd1bPjNgWwpky2CGwPIX4Z7Zezj2LJaM6y7MWlBYm0c5qu4KX763LkBrHOdS4VaxqlRHTtWPRTt2gXh5CP50s6CgYkcST2bkDvMwar7A_lHkNpEHcH2VoDeJ0yHxv7eF0HFIlUhlE_DF-YNqXgv69x_sYRaJYYap30nURtSNrDEW_Ex3PTVxhfgjamVZzNYJFrwW96Ize7N5eyICW7agaT6pG5-lpJM3qu2KeSEQGICcCqMsOR5ZO4oxAjtYynhwMwbC5K2vFWSZeGny_0n_UPEXQnh6hTKYn7td4jQCP2K9ZcTX30DtyCsDWSTrhIdoqaGLmtcN4XR_GVCp348ErxKUnJf4GEvFIBom8arv3mqGnK50L_0fFPYX_JjCRtrq1ePGArJ0S-oQfKn3gvln3V_LcYKPkfr0j5iOB66nhy83QQklCJOactgOHQbTa6SJGEtxQzYxcVDBxccVtCF4wap8TDgkgX1zdfZHnJE2rbOyZMWvEUuXmSIIrF9TvpHC0X16zJHsoJgT-Kezw |website=Universitat Pompeu Fabra |access-date=6 July 2021}}
Letouzé focuses on developing countries and has conducted fieldwork in numerous countries such as Brazil, Chile, Senegal, and Vietnam.{{Cite web |title=Emmanuel Letouzé {{!}} UNSSC {{!}} United Nations System Staff College |url=https://www.unssc.org/about-unssc/speakers-and-collaborators/emmanuel-letouze |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=UNSSC}}{{Cite web |title=Emmanuel Letouzé {{!}} Independent Evaluation Group |url=https://ieg.worldbankgroup.org/expert/emmanuel-letouze |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=World Bank Group}}{{Cite web |title=Big Data Analytics for the Sustainable Development of Latin America and the Caribbean |url=https://www.data4sdgs.org/blog/big-data-analytics-sustainable-development-latin-america-and-caribbean |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Global Partnership for Sustainable Development |language=en}}
= Data-Pop Alliance =
Letouzé co-founded Data-Pop Alliance in 2013 with Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Patrick Vinck and Claire Melamed, with initial seed funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.{{cite web |title=Our Story |url=https://datapopalliance.org/about/history/ |website=Data-Pop Alliance |date=12 October 2015 |access-date=6 July 2021}} 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"{{cite web |title=Emmanuel Letouzé: Changing the World with Data |url=https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast/changing-the-world-with-data |website=SuperDataScience Podcast |publisher=SuperDataScience |access-date=18 January 2022 |ref=SDS 413}} through diagnosing local realities and human problems with data and AI; mobilizing capacities, communities, and ideas towards more data literate societies; and transforming systems and processes that underpin societies and countries.{{cite web |title=Data-Pop Alliance |url=https://policycommons.net/orgs/data-pop-alliance/ |website=Policy Commons |access-date=6 July 2021}}
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 Inter-American Development Bank, and the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications.
= Political cartooning =
File:Je suis Charlie panel.jpg
Letouzé is a political cartoonist under the pen name "Manu",{{cite news |title=L'ONU en bande dessinée |url=http://onuny.blogs.rfi.fr/category/tags/emmanuel-letouze.html |agency=RFI |date=10 October 2011}}{{cite web |title=Dans le cercle fermé des dessinateurs du New Yorker. 2012 |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2012/04/29/03004-20120429ARTFIG00194-dans-le-cercle-ferme-des-dessinateurs-du-new-yorker.php |website=Le Figaro |date=29 April 2012 |access-date=19 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Emmanuel Letouzé, dessinateur expatrié : " La caricature de presse est très adaptée aux nouveaux médias " |url=http://usamediatiques.canalblog.com/archives/2012/03/19/23797253.html |website=US Médiatiques |date=19 March 2012 |access-date=20 January 2022}} publishing in France and the US.{{cite web |title=Emmanuel "Manu" Letouzé |url=https://cartoonmovement.com/cartoonist/421 |access-date=6 July 2021 |website=Cartoon Movement}} He was the editorial cartoonist of French regional daily newspaper L'Union de Reims from 1997 to 2004, where he published 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.{{cite web |title=Emmanuel "Manu" Letouzé |url=https://cartoonmovement.com/cartoonist/421 |website=Cartoon Movement |access-date=23 September 2021}} He held a solo exhibition at The Invisible Dog Art Center in New York in 2011,{{cite web |title=Emmanuel "Manu" Letouze |url=https://www.theinvisibledog.org/all/2011/10/7/emmanuel-manu-letouze |website=The Invisible Dog |date=7 October 2011 |access-date=23 September 2021}} and became an appointed member of the Cartoon Movement in 2012.{{cite web |title=Emmanuel "Manu" Letouzé |url=https://cartoonmovement.com/cartoonist/421 |website=Cartoonist Movement |access-date=7 January 2022}}
In 2011, he took part in the response to the first attack against Charlie Hebdo
He has contributed cartoons and illustrations to several humanitarian publications and campaigns, including for the Sphere Standards, which sets international humanitarian assistance standards,{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} and the International Peace Institute's Management Handbook for UN Peacekeeping missions.{{cite web |last1=Hecht |first1=Alice |last2=Junk |first2=Julian |last3=Kambaran |first3=Vickesh |last4=Papenfuss |first4=Till |last5=Salomons |first5=Dirk |last6=Samii |first6=Cyrus |title=The Management Handbook for UN Field Missions |url=https://www.ipinst.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/management_handbook_linked.pdf |website=International Peace Institute |access-date=7 January 2022}}
He regularly uses cartoons in his academic publications and presentations on data and development{{cite web |last1=Cohen-Setton |first1=Jérémie |last2=Letouzé |first2=Emmanuel |title=Big Data, aggregates and individuals |url=https://www.bruegel.org/2013/03/blogs-review-big-data-aggregates-and-individuals/ |website=Bruegel Blogs |date=29 August 2016 |publisher=Bruegel |access-date=19 January 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Letouzé |first1=Emmanuel |title=Can Big Data From Cellphones Help Prevent Conflict? |url=https://theglobalobservatory.org/2012/11/can-big-data-from-cellphones-help-prevent-conflict/ |website=IPI Global Observatory |date=8 November 2012 |publisher=International Peace Institute |access-date=19 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Should 'data literacy' be promoted? |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4xmO_DPZPM&list=PLBc4lThqX-WM-RC9EVzxKrXpULnj4BmkS&index=11 |website=UN Stats Youtube | date=23 October 2020 |access-date=23 September 2021}}{{cite web |title=Emmanuel Letouzé: "Data for Development" |url=https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research-article/data-development/ |website=UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix |publisher=UC Berkeley |access-date=18 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=The Art of Emmanuel Letouzé |url=https://live-socialsciencematrix-2.pantheon.berkeley.edu/media/art-emmanuel-letouzé |website=UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix |date=4 May 2015 |publisher=UC Berkeley |access-date=18 January 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Letouzé |first1=Emmanuel |title="Make Measurement Matter: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Monitoring and Promoting Sustainable Human Development". Presentation at the Brazilian Network Information Center – NIC.br, São Paulo, Brazil, 2019 |url=https://workshop.metodologia.cetic.br/files/apresentacao/arquivo/579/ix-nicbr-annual-workshop-ELetouz%C3%A9.pdf |publisher=Cetic.br |access-date=19 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Artwork by Manu |url=https://datapopalliance.org/datatoons/ |website=Datatoons |date=2 July 2021 |publisher=Data-Pop Alliance}} 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.{{cite web |title=How to make data memorable, engaging, and inspiring, using cartoons, humour and serious gameplay |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4xmO_DPZPM |website=YouTube | date=23 October 2020 |publisher=UN World Data Forum |access-date=17 January 2022}}
Affiliations and awards
- Appointed Member of the European Commission's Expert Group on Facilitating the use of new data sources for official statistics (March 2021 – March 2022){{cite web |date=11 December 2020 |title=Expert Group on facilitating the use of new data sources for official statistics |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/mandate-and-composition-expert-group_en |access-date=18 January 2022 |website=European Commission}}
- 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)
- Founding Fellow, [https://connection.mit.edu/ MIT Connection Science] (2015–present)
- Research Associate, Overseas Development Institute (2014–present)
- Member of the Technical Advisory Group, [https://www.data4sdgs.org/TAG Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data] (2017 - present)
- Member of [https://iussp.org/en/panel/big-data-and-population-processes 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 [https://unstats.un.org/unsd/undataforum/index.html UN World Data Forum] (2017 and 2018)
- University of California Regent's Scholarship, UC Berkeley (2009–2011){{cite web |title=UC Berkeley Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship |url=https://financialaid.berkeley.edu/types-of-aid-at-berkeley/scholarships/regents-and-chancellors-scholarship/}}
- University of California Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2013–2014)
- J. William Fulbright Fellowship (Columbia University, 2004–2005)
- [https://www.sylff.org/institutions/columbia-university/ Sasakawa Foundation Young Leader Fellowship] Grant for research in Hanoi, Vietnam (2005)
- Invited Member of the Cartoon Movement (2014–present)
Selected publications
On Big data and development:
- Letouzé, E. (2012) [https://www.unglobalpulse.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BigDataforDevelopment-UNGlobalPulseMay2012.pdf "Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities"]. UN Global Pulse
- Bravo, M. A., Letouzé, E., Oliver, N., and Shoup, N. (2021). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/VFI-DPA_Fighting_COVID_with_Data_report_2020.pdf "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/DNP-doc9-Manual.pdf "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.
- Oliver, N., Letouzé, E. et al. (2020).[https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abc0764 "Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle"]. Science Advances
- Oliver,N., Letouzé, E. et al. (2020) [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.12347.pdf "Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?"].Arvix preprint.
- Clavijo, A., Letouzé, E., Loaiza, I., Pentland, A., Ricard, J., and Silva, D., (2019) [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Doc4_recomendacioneseinsumos_DNP.pdf "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) [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Documento5_PropuestaImplementacion_DPAMIT.pdf "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Documento6_ImpactoEconomico_Social_DPAMIT.pdf "Impacto económico y social de la implementación de la estrategia"]. Data-Pop Alliance.
- Letouzé, E., Pestre, G. and Zagheni, E. (2019). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PestreLetouzeZagheniABCDEMay2016.pdf "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/DPA_VFI-SHARING-IS-CARING.pdf "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/women_in_the_gig_economy_final_digital.pdf "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/190814-Ocassional-Paper-Series-No.-54_final.pdf "Harnessing Innovative Data and Technology to Measure Development Effectiveness"]. Southern Voice.
- Letouzé, E., and Tandefelt, N., (2019) [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20190329-Evaluacion-de-Nuevas-Herramientas-y-Tecnicas-del-Big-Data-Documento-Final-Version.pdf "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/3f1f9c8902e03b2c29c3c4185c58a65e9f05.pdf "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/HumanAIITU2018-15.pdf "Towards a human artificial intelligence for human development"]. ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, Special Issue, (2).
- Letouzé, E. (2018). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Panorama_estendido_maio_2018_online.pdf "Panorama setorial da internet: Big Data e desenvolvimento: Uma visão geral"]. Panorama Setorial Da Internet, 10(1), 1–11.
- Montjoye,Y.A., Gambs,S. Letouzé,E. et al.[https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2018286?origin=app "On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data"]. Scientific Data. Article number: 180286.
- Letouzé, E. and Sankoya, D. (2017). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/How-to-use-Big-Data_VFI_Data-Pop-Alliance-Paper.pdf "How to use Big Data? Leading experts' roadmap to data-driven innovation projects"]. Vodafone Institute.
- Letouzé, E., Pestre, G., and Zaghnei, E. (2016). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PestreLetouzeZagheniABCDEMay2016.pdf "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). [http://methods.sagepub.com/book/dealing-with-complexity-in-development-evaluation/i2435.xml "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/eScholarship-UC-item-EL.pdf "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) [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/VFI_DataPopAlliance_Berlin.png "Big Data and Privacy: Understanding the Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Data Revolution in Germany"]. Vodafone Institute.
- Kammourieh, L., et al. (2017). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/APC-Group-Privacy-2015.pdf "Group privacy in the age of big data"]. in: Group Privacy (pp. 37–66). Springer, Cham.
- Letouzé, E. (2015). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Big-Data-Dev-Overview.pdf "Big data and development: General overview primer"]. Data-Pop Alliance White Paper Series.
- Bhargava,R., Deahl,E., Letouzé,E., Noonan,A., Sangokoya,D., and Shoup,N. (2015)[https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/123471/Beyond%20Data%20Literacy%202015.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y "Beyond data literacy: Reinventing community engagement and empowerment in the age of data"]
- Letouzé, E. (2015). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/7798BigData-Data-Pop-Alliance-Emmanuel-Letouze.pdf "Big Data & SDGs note for Global Sustainable Development Report"]. Data-Pop Alliance.
- Letouzé, E., Vinck, P, and Kammourieh, L. (2015) [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/WPS_LawPoliticsEthicsCellPhoneDataAnalytics.pdf "The law, politics and ethics of cell phone data analytics"]. Data-Pop Alliance.
- Romana, S. and Letouzé, E. (2015)[https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5824849 "Crossfire: 'The potential of data for development is overstated. The negative impacts on vulnerable populations outweigh the benefits at this point'"] Enterprise development & microfinance.
- Kammourieh, L., Letouzé, E. and Vinck, P. (2014) [http://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/WPS_LawPoliticsEthicsCellPhoneDataAnalytics.pdf "The Law, Politics and Ethics of Cell Phone Data Analytics"] Data-Pop Alliance
- Kroll, G., Carpena, F., Ghosh, I., Letouzé, E., Rosa,J. and Trivedi.P (2014)[https://usaidlearninglab.org/sites/default/files/resource/files/DIL%20State%20of%20the%20Science%202014%20-%20White-Paper.pdf "Revealing Demand for Pro-Poor Innovations"] USAID Learning Lab.
- Letouzé, E. (2013)[https://www.oecd.org/dac/conflict-fragility-resilience/docs/FragileStates2013.pdf"Fragile States: Resource Flows and Trends"]. OECD.
- Pritchett, L. Klasen, S., Alkire, S., Lenhardt, A. and Emmanuel Letouzé (2013)[https://odi.org/en/publications/eradicating-global-poverty-a-noble-goal-but-how-do-we-measure-it/ "Eradicating global poverty: a noble goal, but how do we measure it?"]
On fiscal policy and fiscal space:
- Roy, R., Heuty, A., and Letouzé, E. (2012).[https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781849771344-11/fiscal-space-public-investment-towards-human-development-approach-rathin-roy-antoine-heuty-emmanuel-letouzé "Fiscal space for public investment: Towards a human development approach"]. Taylor & Francis Group. Routledge 1st edition.
- Roy,R., Heuty, A., and Letouzé, E. (2012). [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781849771344-10/fiscal-space-analytical-issues-human-development-perspective-rathin-roy-antoine-heuty-emmanuel-letouzé "Fiscal Space for What? Analytical Issues from a Human Development Perspective"]. Taylor & Francis Group. Routledge 1st edition.
On migration:
- Fiorio, L., Zagheni, E., Abel, G., Hill, J., Pestre, G., Letouzé, E., and Cai, J. (2021). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8917630.pdf ''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). [https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030125530#aboutBook Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios]. Springer, Berlin.
- Salah, A., Pentland, A., Lepri, B., Letouzé, E. et al. (2019). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_1 "Introduction to the data for refugees challenge on mobility of Syrian refugees in Turkey"]. Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios. Springer
- Letouzé, E. (2019) [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_23 "Leveraging Open Algorithms (OPAL) for the Safe, Ethical, and Scalable Use of Private Sector Data in Crisis Contexts"]. Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios. Springer.
- Salah, A. et al. (2018). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1807.00523.pdf "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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/understanding-patterns-human_fiorio_et_al_PAA2017.pdf "Understanding patterns of human mobility at different time scales"]. PAA 2018 Annual Meeting. April (pp. 26–28).
- Letouzé, E., Purser,M., Rodríguez, F., and Cummins,M. (2009). [https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19227/ "Revisiting the Migration-Development Nexus: A Gravity Model Approach"]
On crime, conflict 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). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Crime-Hotspots-Big-Data-London.pdf "Moves on the street: Classifying crime hotspots using aggregated anonymized data on people dynamics"]. Big data, 3(3), 148–158.
- Letouzé, E., Meier,P,. and Vinck,P. (2013)[https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep09625.5.pdf "Big data for conflict prevention: New oil and old fires"]. International Peace Institute.
- Mancini, F.,Letouzé, E. et al. (2013)[https://www.stabilityjournal.org/article/10.5334/sta.cp/ "New technology and the prevention of violence and conflict"]. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 2(3), p.Art. 55.
On official statistics and human artificial intelligence:
- Oliver, N, et al. (2020). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2003.12347.pdf "Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle"]. Sciences Advances.
- Letouzé, E. (2018). [https://www.cairn.info/revue-regards-croises-sur-l-economie-2018-2-page-47.htm?contenu=article "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.
- Letouzé, E. (2018) [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Nov28NoteRevolutionDesDonnéesTogoE.Letouzé.pdf Mobiliser et humaniser la Révolution des Données pour la statistique publique, le développement et la démocratie"]. PNUD Togo.
- Letouzé, E., Pestre, G., Manske, J., and Sangokoya, D. (2016). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Data-Pop-Alliance-LAC-NSO-EN.pdf "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.
- Roca, T. and Letouzé, E. (2016)[https://www.cairn.info/journal-afrique-contemporaine-2016-2-page-95.htm "La révolution des données est-elle en marche?"]. Afrique contemporaine.
- Jütting, J. and Letouzé, E. (2015). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Big-Data-Official-Statistics-FINAL.pdf "Official statistics, big data and human development"]. Data-Pop Alliance White Paper Series.
On data and algorithmic governance:
- Lepri, B., Letouzé, E., Oliver, N., Pentland, A., and Vinck, P. (2018). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Fair-Transparent-and-Accountable-Algorithmic-Decision-making-Processes.pdf "Fair, transparent, and accountable algorithmic decision-making processes"]. Philosophy & Technology, 31(4), 611–627.
- Lepri, B., Letouzé, E., Oliver, N. Sangokoya, D., and Staiano, J. (2017). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/The-Tyranny-of-data.pdf "The tyranny of data? The bright and dark sides of data-driven decision-making for social good"]. Springer.
- Letouzé, E., and Sangokoya, D. (2015). [https://datapopalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/LeveragingAlgorithms.png "Leveraging Algorithms for Positive Disruption: On data, democracy, society and statistics"]. Data-Pop Alliance.
References
{{reflist}}
External links
- https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/emmanuel-letouze
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thick-ethical-concepts/
{{Improve categories|date=November 2021}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Letouzé, Emmanuel}}