New York Strategy offers customized machine learning solutions to support leaders in business governments in their most important decisions.

Founded by United Nations advisors and technologists who delivered the Sustainable Development Goals, our mission is to leverage frontier technologies in AI, Big Data, and IoT to support the rapid achievement of the SDGs.

As VP of Data Scientist at Gesture, I head a team of 8 data scientists who are responsible for engineering the company’s data ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline. Namely, I developed the infrastructure which automatically pulls transactional data from Google Firebase, securely stores it in analytical format on Google BigQuery, and thereafter generates KPI dashboards for the executive team in Tableau.In addition to monitoring the company in real-time, I develop AI solutions to inform business decisions driving growth via new customer acquisition, consumer choice diversification, and new market entry. To do so, we employ python-backed machine learning libraries including SciKit Learn and Tensorflow to conduct predictive analytics. Our techniques are now being used to improve the customer experience and optimize the company’s operational efficiency.

Worked closely with boards of directors and senior executives across financial institutions, tech firms, real estate companies, and a variety of industries to recommend policies that align leadership incentives with shareholder expectations in an intense regulatory environment.

I served as an advisor to heads of state, finance and foreign ministers, as well as numerous United Nations Ambassadors. In my time at the UN, I became the youngest United Nations diplomat to negotiate the United Nations 2030 Agenda from any country in the world. On behalf of UN delegations, I negotiated the terms of the Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals, which streamline social, economic, and environmental cooperation by governments, the private sector, and civil society.In parallel, I also negotiated the Financing for Development framework, which serves to fund development initiatives through intense public-private partnerships and with focus on the world's most vulnerable constituencies.I also advised on the Paris Climate Agreement and helped to organize Climate Summit 2014 with the UN Office for Partnerships, which served as the seminal precursor to the most ambitious emissions-reduction framework now adopted by the international community.I was the face of delegations including the Permanent Missions of Panama and the Sovereign Order of Malta to the United Nations, publicly representing them in the General Assembly, the Security Council, and various UN agencies and chambers, as well as in speech writing.

I partook in the MIT expert group led by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Kenneth Strzepek in advising the Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Sudanese governments on peacefully resolving the Nile Basin's water crises through non-zero sum mediation. I assisted in synthesizing the technical expertise of leading scientists, engineers, and negotiation experts to draft policy recommendations to peacefully resolve the threat of armed conflict arising from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam's construction.Four months following our delivery, the three governments issued the first ever "Declaration of Principles" for peaceful cooperation along the Nile, reflecting the recommendations of the Working Group.