Data-Pop Alliance

Data-Pop Alliance is a non-profit think tank founded by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab and the Overseas Development Institute.^[1][2][3] Emmanuel Letouzé is the Director and Co-Founder and Alex Pentland is Academic Director.^[4] Its research areas includes public policy,^[5][6] inequality,^[7] privacy,^[8] crime,^[9] climate change^[10][11] and human rights.^[12]

Data-Pop Alliance

Formation	2014
Type	Think Tank
Location	New York City
Key people	Emmanuel Letouzé, Patrick Vinck, Alex "Sandy" Pentland
Affiliations	Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute, Flowminder
Website	http://datapopalliance.org/

Data-Pop Alliance is a partner for the United Nations Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Sustainable Development Learning & Training Course Partnerships.^[13] In addition, it is a partner of the United Nations System Staff College in the context of Agenda 2030.^[14]

From 2014 to 2020, Data-Pop Alliance was hosted by ThoughtWorks in New York City.^[15] In 2018, it opened a regional office in Mexico City^[16] and in 2021, a regional office in Dakar, Senegal. Nuria Oliver serves as Data-Pop Alliance's Chief Data Scientist. Data-Pop Alliance currently operates projects in over 20 countries, with staff located in Latin America, the MENA region, and Europe.