His work focuses on the applications and implications of Big Data, technology and Artificial Intelligence for development and democracy especially as related to poverty, inequality, official statistics, data literacy, criminality, resilience, the future of work, as well as ethics and privacy.
He worked as a Development Economist for UNDP in New York (2006-09) on fiscal policy, post-conflict recovery and migration, and in Hanoi, Vietnam, for the French Ministry of Finance as a technical assistant in public finance and official statistics (2000-04).
He holds a BA in Political Science and an MA in 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.
He is also a political cartoonist for various media as “Manu” and an invited Member of The Cartoon Movement.