César Hidalgo
Physicist, author and entrepreneur
César A. Hidalgo is a Chilean-born physicist and professor who pioneered the field of economic complexity. He wrote Why Information Grows.
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Born 1979 in Santiago, Chile
About César Hidalgo
At the Toulouse School of Economics, Hidalgo holds a tenured professorship and directs the Center for Collective Learning. He also has an honorary professorship at Alliance Manchester Business School. Earlier, he led the Collective Learning group at MIT. His doctorate in physics is from the University of Notre Dame. He developed methods such as the Economic Complexity Index, and he co-created The Observatory of Economic Complexity along with data platforms such as Data USA and Data Mexico. He is also a founder of the data company Datawheel. He received the Lagrange Prize in 2018, and his data platforms have won three Webby Awards. Why Information Grows was published by Basic Books in 2015.