Manuel García-Herranz is the chief scientist at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation, where he focuses on bridging the gap between data science and the most vulnerable, exploring how to apply big data, complex systems theory, and AI to help the most deprived and invisible, from addressing growing humanitarian problems such as epidemics, natural disasters, and migration and transversal issues such as monitoring development indicators, data representativeness, and the inclusion of inequality concepts in the body of computer science theories. Manuel holds a PhD in computer science from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.