Dr. Wolfgang Fengler

Wolfgang Fengler is the CEO of World Data Lab (WDL) which he founded after spending more than 23 years with the World Bank, including in Southeast Asia. At TEDx Vienna, Wolfgang launched his first data machine population.io, which was endorsed by Bill Gates. Aftershock (2020) featured him as one of the world’s 100 leading futurists and the German weekly DER SPIEGEL called him a “big data virtuoso”. His work has been covered by the Financial Times, ECONOMIST, BBC, CNN and CNBC. He received his PhD from the University of Hamburg (Germany).

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