Tobias Lunt is a Visiting Data Scientist at NCAER and co-founder and chief data scientist at the Development Data Lab. He was previously a data scientist at the World Bank in Washington DC;a research specialist at Jahn Research Group (UW); and, Fulbright Scholar in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

He works with an array of tools and techniques to extract meaning from messy, complex, large datasets – delivering insights and open sourcing data and software to fight poverty around the world.

He has Master’s in Agroecology from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bachelor’s in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College.