Dr. Emmanuel Letouzé is the Director and Co-Founder of Data-Pop Alliance. He is a Founding Fellow at MIT Connection Science, a Visiting Scientist at HHI, and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona (2021-23). Emmanuel co-founded the Open Algorithms (OPAL) project and served as Executive Director of the OPAL pilots in Senegal and Colombia in 2017-2020. He serves as an appointed member of the European Commission’s Expert group on the use of private data for official statistics, and is a founding member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), and was a Program Committee Member of the 1st and 2nd editions of the UN World Data Forum in 2017 and 2018. His work focuses on the applications and implications of data, statistics, technology and AI for development and democracy in the Global South, especially Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle-East and North Africa region, and South-East Asia.