Margherita Philipp

Margherita graduated with an MSc in Data Science from the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) where she wrote her thesis on predicting conflict with the help of text-based data. She is currently exploring ways of forecasting institutional disruption and how data on gender can be incorporated into predictions of state fragility. She has a background in philosophy, politics, and economics and has worked as a monitoring and evaluation consultant on a wide range of projects in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa. Margherita is especially passionate about topics related to education. She trained as a maths and economics teacher through Teach First, developed a platform matching young people’s career questions with relevant professionals, and holds a MA in Educational Leadership from UCL.