Ben Brunckhorst is a Research Analyst in the Data Analytics Unit of the Development Economics Data Group at the World Bank. His work spans economics, climate change, and data science, with a focus on global welfare monitoring. He supports the subnational poverty and inequality database and integrates microdata with climate and geospatial data to assess welfare dynamics and evaluate policies. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from the University of Queensland, and a M.Sc. in Economics for Development from the University of Oxford.