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 nowcasting and forecasting institutional disruption and electoral violence. 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.