Erwin Knippenberg is a Young Professional at the World Bank, in the South Asia Poverty practice. He previously worked as a consultant, using machine learning and data science to inform decision-making in public health and climate resilience. Erwin has a in PhD in Applied Economics from Cornell University, where he wrote his dissertation on resilience and food security in the context of climate change. Prior to Cornell Erwin was an Overseas Development Institute Fellow at the Liberian Ministry of Finance. Erwin has a MSC in Economics for Development from Oxford (’12) and a joint BS/MA from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (’11).