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For decades I've worked at the forefront of international and public security, forced migration, digital transformation, climate action, and smarter city agendas. I co-founded SecDev, a cyber-security firm and the Igarapé Institute - an independent "think and venture tank" focused on citizen, digital and climate security. My start-up, Bioverse, leverages remote sensing and AI to build forest intelligence. I have a track record providing policy expertise, thought leadership, and social impact.I've led applied research, impact evaluations and product development for national/city governments and international agencies, private companies, the UN, IADB, IMF and World Bank. I've overseen surveys and diagnostics in 50 countries. More recently, I've worked with tech companies ranging from Google, Microsoft, and Meta to AirBnB and Uber to build data protection standards and practices to promote AI safety and alignment.  I advise consulting companies such as McKinsey’s and sit on the board of several start-ups and funds in the climate and nature-based solutions space. I lead teams to design and test predictive platforms that monitor crime hot-spots, track city risks, trace climate migration, and derisk territories and improve transparency across commodity supply chains. I've also led developers to build open source body cameras to improve accountability.My work spans countries and cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. I´ve served on multiple high level UN panels, a Lancet Commission, co-founded the open access journal Stability and written 8 books and +100 peer-review articles. My latest book, Terra Incognita, was published with Penguin/Random House in 2020 and is available in English, Japanese, German and other languages. I'm a non-resident faculty at Singularity University and taught at the University of San Diego, the Graduate Institute, PUC in Rio de Janeiro and UBC. I'm also a fellow at Princeton University, the Chicago Council for Global Affairs, the Bosch Foundation, and the World Economic Forum’s Council on Cities and the annual Global Risk Report. I’m also a columnist at Foreign Policy and The Conversation.My research is often cited in news outlets like the Atlantic, BBC, CNN, Economist, El Pais, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, USA Today, and Wired. I've given public talks at the Global Smart City Expo, Pritzker Forum, Davos, World Governance Forum, and TED in 2015, 2017, and 2019. I currently have an i10-index of 207 and h-index of 52 and earned a DPhil at the University of Oxford and an MPhil at Sussex.

Listed skills include International Relations, Political Science, Capacity Building, Policy Analysis, and 44 others.