Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño, PhD is a Chief Scientist at Mapbox, a start-up focused on widening the impact of open data, maps and satellite imaging. Prior to Mapbox, he was Director of Science and Technology at GAIN, an NGO bringing open data to measure climate change adaptation challenges. Sánchez-Andrade Nuño has more than 10 years of international experience as a published author and speaker on science and technology outreach, and serves on various boards of technology companies and climate change initiatives. He has also worked with NASA satellites and space rockets. Sánchez-Andrade Nuño was a Mirzayan Fellow of the US National Academies of Sciences and a Member of AEGEE (European Students Forum). He earned a PhD in Astrophysics from the Max Planck Institute.

He is specially interested in the use of technology and data to empower development, sustainability or crisis response. He is currently leveraging Big Data at the World Bank Innovation Labs, by way of Silicon Valley, US National Science Policy and academic rocket science.

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