Matheus Hardt
Associate Information Management Officer
Panama, Panamá Province
Summary
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Top SchoolMatheus Hardt is an Associate Information Management Officer at UNHCR’s Regional Bureau for the Americas with a Ph.D. in International Relations and eight years of hands-on experience turning messy datasets into actionable intelligence for protection and mixed-movements operations. He blends quantitative social-science rigor with practical data engineering—automating validation pipelines in R, connecting Power BI to GitHub, and building ArcGIS Pro map templates—to support decisions from Canada to Argentina. Matheus has led interagency technical groups and designed flow- and protection-monitoring systems that shifted responses from anecdote to evidence, while also training local teams to sustain those gains. His background spans academia, government and private sector projects—designing job-matching algorithms, auditing large public payrolls, and generating policy-relevant country rankings—so he routinely translates complex methods into usable tools. Notably, he pioneered automated newsletter generation and novel data validation stages for Mixed Movements Monitoring, improving timeliness and reliability of shared regional databases. Based in Panama, he combines technical depth with operational sensitivity to adapt solutions across diverse contexts and team capacities.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science International Relations, Master of Science International Relations at USP - Universidade de São PauloDoctor of Philosophy International Relations, Doctor of Philosophy International Relations at King's College London
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
pagedown7
xaringan6
statistics5
database4
quarto3
shiny2
knitr2
markdown2
rmarkdown2
rstudio1
r1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
matheus-hardt/unhcr-git-exercise
Jan 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
matheus-hardt/unhcrdatapackage_msh
Jun 2022 - Jun 2023
A data package with UNHCR statistics Database
Contributions:14 pushes in 1 year
statisticsdatabasedatabase-statisticsdata-package
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