Joel Suss

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I'm a data journalist with the Financial Times in London. You can find my articles here.

In a former life, I was a research data scientist in the advanced analytics division at the Bank of England. I still have a toe in the academic world as visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, jointly appointed at the International Inequalities Institute and Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. I earned my PhD from LSE in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science.

My academic research is primarily concerned with measuring economic inequality and understanding it implications for individuals, groups, and societies. I developed first-ever estimates of wealth inequality at sub-national geographical levels in the US (with Tom Kemeny and Dylan Conor -- data download here), and I introduced measures of economic inequality at the neighbourhood level in the UK (maps and data download here).

At the Bank of England, I applied supervised machine learning techniques to aid financial regulation, and gathered digital exhaust data from multiple sources to quantify board diversity and organisational culture.