Erwin Knippenberg is a Senior Economist at the World Bank. He focuses on welfare dynamics, labor markets, forced displacement and resilience to shocks through the use of empirical analytics, big data and machine learning. He previously worked in the private sector on the use of big data to inform policy in developing countries. Erwin has a 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).