Summary
Hugo Gerard is a data analyst with 12 years of experience turning terabyte-scale telecommunications and mobile money logs into actionable insights for development and finance initiatives. At Tala and previously with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Reserve Bank of Australia, he combines econometrics training with practical tooling (R, Python, MySQL, bash) to design analysis frameworks and execute complex data pipelines in low-resource settings. His work focuses on evaluating adoption and usage of mobile money in developing countries, blending rigorous statistical methods with large-scale administrative data processing. Based in the New York City area, he brings a rare mix of central-bank research experience and field-oriented data engineering that helps bridge policy questions and operational analytics.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MSc), Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Master of Science (MSc), Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra