César Augusto Hidalgo

César Hidalgo is a tenured professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and Director of the Center for Collective Learning, a multidisciplinary research laboratory with offices at the Institute for Advanced Study at TSE and the Corvinus Institute of Advanced Studies at Corvinus University of Budapest. A Chilean-Spanish-American scholar known for foundational contributions to economic complexity and applied work in data visualisation and artificial intelligence, he previously led MIT's Collective Learning group (2010–2019) and was a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Co-founder of Datawheel, an award-winning company specialising in public data distribution and economic development strategy, he has authored Why Information Grows (Basic Books, 2015), The Atlas of Economic Complexity (MIT Press, 2014), and How Humans Judge Machines (MIT Press, 2021), and has been recognised with the 2018 Lagrange Prize and three Webby Awards. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Notre Dame.