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Dr. Wolfgang Fengler

Wolfgang Fengler is the CEO of World Data Lab (WDR) which he founded following a long career at the World Bank. WDL is a fast growing global enterprise which supports Fortune500 companies with consistent forecasts, across all demographics in the world.

A native German, Wolfgang spent more than 23 years with the World Bank during which he lived in the USA, Asia, Africa, and Europe. At TEDx Vienna, Wolfgang launched his first data machine population.io, which was endorsed by Bill Gates. Aftershock (2020) featured him as one of the world’s 100 leading futurists and the German weekly DER SPIEGEL called him a “big data virtuoso”. His work has been covered by the FT, ECONOMIST, BBC, CNN and CNBC.

He received his PhD from the University of Hamburg (Germany).

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