The OECD’s Alexandre Blanquet explains how the use of AI and satellite imagery can help cities face the challenges of the future and become more sustainable.
Alexandre Banquet
Alexandre Banquet works as a Geospatial Data Scientist for the OECD Centre for entrepreneurship, SMEs, regions and cities. He actively contributes to the development of subnational indicators in all 38 OECD member countries on various topics, including climate change, land use, environment, energy, demographic change, and housing, by leveraging both conventional and alternative sources of data, such as Earth Observation. Alexandre also contributes to the activities of the OECD Laboratory for Geospatial Analysis.
Before joining the OECD, Alexandre worked as an Energy Data Scientist for the US R&D centre of Electricité de France (EDF) in the Silicon Valley. Alexandre holds a Master's degree in Science and Executive Engineering from Mines Paris - PSL, as well as a Master of Science in Mathematics from ENS Paris-Saclay.