Alex Engler

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About Alex Engler

I am a fellow at the the Brookings Institution and an associate fellow at the Center for European Policy Studies, where I study the implications of artificial intelligence and emerging data technologies on society and governance (More here: I also teach courses on data science and technology to public policy students, currently at the Georgetown's McCourt School of Public Policy, formerly at the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University. I spent fall 2021 - spring 2022 in Berlin and Brussels, as a Fulbright Schuman Innovation Scholar and Stiftung Mercator Senior Fellow, researching the European approach to AI governance. For the decade before coming to Brookings, I have applied and taught data science for policy analysis. Previously, I ran UChicago’s MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy and designed the MS in Data Science and Public Policy at Georgetown University. I was the first data scientist and a principal investigator at the Urban Institute, where I helped found the Office of Technology and Data Science. I was also a senior consulting data scientist to MDRC's Center for Data Insights. I'm also very proud to have contributed to Sunlight Foundation's Labs (as an intern, but still), the DC Superintendent's office, and the Congressional Research Service.