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Dr. Luengo-Oroz

Chief Data Scientist at UN Global Pulse

Dr. Luengo-Oroz is a scientist and entrepreneur passionate about technology and innovation for social impact. He has pioneered the use of big data and artificial intelligence for sustainable development, humanitarian action and global health.

He has been the first data scientist working at the United Nations (2011-).Miguel is the Chief Data Scientist at UN Global Pulse, the AI and big data innovation initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General. He is responsible for Global Pulse’s technology strategy and head of the data science teams across the network of Pulse labs. Over the last decade, he has built teams worldwide bringing big data and AI to operations and policy in domains including poverty, food security, refugees and migrants, conflict prevention, human rights, economic development, gender, hate speech, privacy and climate change.

Miguel is the founder of the social enterprise Spotlab, which uses mobile phones,3D printing and AI for diagnosis of global health diseases. He is the inventor of Malariaspot.org–video games for crowdsourcing malaria image analysis–,and is affiliated with the Universidad Politécnicade Madrid.

Miguel has received the MITTR35award, the Ashoka fellowship and  the European Responsible Research and Innovation award. 

He holds a PhD and MSc.Eng from the Universidad Politecnicade Madrid and a MSc from the Ecoledes Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris.