Eleonore Fournier-Tombs

Eleonore Fournier-Tombs consults as a senior data scientist in crisis and disaster risk finance at the World Bank, primarily in the areas of Covid-19 modelling, food insecurity, crisis preparedness, vulnerability and conflict. She has worked as a data scientist at UN-OCHA and in the private sector, and managed data platforms at UNDP and the UN Secretariat. She holds a PhD in computational social science from the University of Geneva and a post-doctoral fellowship from McGill University School of Information Science.

Eleonore is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and the Director of the Inclusive Technology Lab, within the research chair on Accountable AI in a Global Context. She lectures at McGill University and Université de Montréal in data science and new technologies in the international sector. Her academic work has focused on automated methods for the measurement of political deliberation in the Canadian North and in social media, as well as the impacts of emerging technologies on women, migrants and other vulnerable populations. She is the recipient of the United Nation’s Secretary General Award and has contributed to a number of policy reports involving data and modelling at the United Nations. She is currently an Area Editor for Data & Policy Journal, published by Cambridge University Press.