Daniel Björkegren is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He works to understand how digital technologies and artificial intelligence could transform developing economies. His work has provided foundations for digital credit scoring for people excluded from traditional banking. He is an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development, and MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University, a Master's of Arts in Economics from Stanford University, and a Bachelor degree in Physics from the University of Washington. He has previously worked at Microsoft, where he coded the photo app for Microsoft’s first smartphone and later returned as a visiting researcher. He also taught high school math and science along the Texas-Mexico border through Teach for America.
