PhD, University of Oxford. Political economist focused on security and development in urban spaces. Co-Founder, Igarapé Institute, a think and do tank devoted to using new technologies to tackle global challenges. Co-Founder, SecDev Group, a digital risk firm; and oversees projects in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Advises various UN agencies, the IADB, McKsiney's, and the World Bank. Faculty, Singularity University. Fellow, University of Oxford, the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the Chicago Council for Global Affairs, the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Member: Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities, World Economic Forum; Global Risk Report 2018 and 2019, World Economic Forum; Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime; Know Violence in Childhood Initiative; other international networks. Has given TED talks on fragile and resilient cities in 2017 and 2015. Research and data visualizations on homicide, arms, and cities have been featured by the BBC, CBC, CNN, FastCompany, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Times and Wired. Author of seven books, dozens of articles. Named one of the top 100 most influential people working on violence (2013).
Ninguna ciudad se ha salvado de la propagación letal del COVID-19. Pero el virus ha tenido un impacto profundamente desigual en diferentes grupos de personas, inclusive en una misma ciuda...
No city has escaped the deadly spread of COVID-19. But the virus has had a profoundly uneven impact on different groups of people, even within the same city. When New York City was the gl...
The Amazon Basin is approaching a dangerous tipping point. Within a few years the world’s largest tropical forest could experience a 'die-back' that would not just affect South American c...
During the first half of 2020 when more than two-thirds of the world’s population was in lockdown, many of us were transfixed by a map. The alarming red and black display, produced by res...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought some of the world's wealthiest global cities to their knees. In the current epicentre, New York, roughly one-fifth of all residents are infected and more...
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be receding in some parts of Western Europe, East Asia and North America, but it's rapidly taking-off in Latin America, Africa and South Asia. ...
In every crisis it is the poor, sick, disabled, homeless and displaced who suffer the most. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Migrants and refugees, people who shed one life in searc...
The world is entering a volatile and unstable new phase. Scientists are increasingly confident that the COVID-19 pandemic threat will persist, possibly for years. The global economy is he...
176 pays de la planète sont désormais touchés par le Covid-19. Il apparaît clairement que la pandémie représente la plus grande menace que l’humanité ait eu à affronter depuis la Seconde ...
When it comes to infectious disease outbreaks, cities are dual-edged. To be sure, cities are a big part of the problem. They intensify the spread and transmission of infectious disease th...
Urban violence is predictable; it concentrates in specific places, among certain people and at very particular times. This means violence is hyperlocal, concentrated in "hot spot" neighbo...
The world in 2020 is looking more turbulent and uncertain than ever. Powerful economic, demographic and technological forces are rewiring international politics. According to the World Ec...
We are facing a climate emergency. More than 11,000 of the world's scientists and successive reports issued by the International Governmental Panel on Climate Change say the evidence of h...
Violence has always been one of humanity's most serious global challenges. This is because for most of history, we were natural born killers. Hundreds of millions of men, women and childr...
Make no mistake: the world is in the early stages of a techno-war against city governments and urban infrastructure. And while some cities have bolstered their capabilities to patch their...
