Andrew Carroll Berkley
TECHNOLOGIST • DATA SCIENTIST • POLITICAL ECONOMIST
My name is Andrew Carroll Berkley and I work at the World Economic Forum where I help improve the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas. My work focuses on “connecting the dots” between citizens, policy-makers, business leaders, social influencers, emerging technologies, and global challenges. I also work as a collaborator at Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab, where I work closely with K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies Illah Nourbakhsh to promote data literacy, inspire meaningful dialogue, and democratize access to data for everyone in an inclusive and transparent way by gathering, creating, and visualizing data and content for the EarthTime platform as well as the World Economic Forum's Transformation Maps.
Before working at the World Economic Forum, I completed a Master's degree at University of Oxford (Green Templeton College, 2016). For my research, I was based at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) where I focused on crisis informatics network analysis. Working under the supervision of Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (author of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think), I collected over 627 million tweets from 18 unique tragedies over a four-month period, built a naïve bayes-based sentiment analyzer to isolate a single emotion—empathy—so that I could ascertain its half-life function online, and examined how the decay rate of this particular type of emotional information diffusion impacts social, political, and economic policies towards marginalized groups.
I also hold a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, & Law program from the University of Arizona. After graduation, I was awarded a Princeton-in-Asia Fellowship to lecture at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. During my tenure in China, I had the unique privilege of standing in front of my students—China’s future diplomatic corps—and challenging them to think with depth and breadth on issues facing China as it charts its way as a global leader in the 21st century. During both lectures and discussions, it was difficult for my students to take up the courage and imagination necessary to navigate the unchartered waters of change that China is facing. I saw them challenged by many complexities as they struggled to articulate their thoughts. My contribution to their educational journey was the union of my extensive background in political theory with a deep desire to help them express their own creativity and imagination—the two things critical to help them find a solution to diplomatic challenges that they would face in the future.
I continue to approach each day with courage and imagination to develop authentic, long-lasting connections with each person I meet. Making these connections and working at the World Economic Forum—with its diverse communities, ability to convene leaders, trusted facilitation, cutting-edge digital platform, and interdisciplinary orientation—allows me to help address the challenges of the 21st century and work towards creating real and permanent good in the world.