Laurent Smeets
Senior Manager at ADC Consulting
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLaurent Smeets is a senior data science leader with a decade of experience at the intersection of data, policy, official statistics and international development, currently helping public-sector clients adopt AI responsibly at ADC Consulting. He has built and led data science teams and strategy—most notably establishing the Data Science Unit and roadmap at the Ghana Statistical Service—and delivered reproducible, policy-impacting tools such as national StatsBank, geospatial census platforms, and automated CPI pipelines. At the World Bank he engineered open-source, reproducible codebases and large-scale data matching pipelines (300M+ records) and prototyped fiscal microsimulation tools to inform tax and gender policy. Equally comfortable with research and operationalization, he blends Bayesian and machine-learning methods, LLMs for classification and report automation, and geospatial and sensor data to produce usable statistics. Multilingual and internationally trained (Leiden, Peking, Utrecht), he combines academic rigor with practical deployments across low-, middle-, and high-income country contexts.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Internationale betrekkingen, Exchange Student Internationale betrekkingen at McGill UniversityMaster of Laws - LLM China Studies, Master of Laws - LLM China Studies at Peking UniversityBachelor's degree International Relations and Affairs, Bachelor's degree International Relations and Affairs at Leiden UniversityMaster of Science - MS Statistics, Master of Science - MS Statistics at Utrecht UniversitySummer School China Studies, Summer School China Studies at Fudan UniversityMaster of Laws - LLM China Studies, Master of Laws - LLM China Studies at Yenching Academy of Peking University
Dutch, English, Chinese, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (72)
bayesian-statistics10
r9
r-package9
structural-equation-modeling8
python8
machine-learning8
proj8
overlapping8
copernicus7
spatial7
htmlwidgets7
missing-data7
modis7
geos7
pdf-format7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LaurentSmeets/GhanaDataStuff_Repo
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
LaurentSmeets/Tutorials
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Tutorials for website Rens van de Schoot
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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