Max Roser

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Max Roser (* 1983 in Kirchheimbolanden ) is a German economist and statistician . He currently works in the University of Oxford's Economics Research Department . His research focuses on major global problems such as poverty , health , hunger , climate change , war , existential risks and inequality and their long-term development. He is the founder of the data website Our World in Data .

Life

Roser was born in the Donnersberg district. As a teenager he won the Jugend forscht science award . Roser studied in Innsbruck and Berlin and has degrees in geosciences , economics and philosophy . During his student days he traveled to large parts of the world, which he financed through a part-time job as a bicycle tour guide. After visiting stays at the Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade in Rio de Janeiro and the Vienna University of Economics and Business , where he researched income inequality, he was invited to the University of Oxford by the British economist Anthony Atkinson in 2012 , where he has worked since then. Roser also gives public lectures on global demographic and socio-economic trends.

In 2011 he published the website Our World in Data. The website is known for depicting the changing global living conditions and visualizing these trends. It shows that in many societies in the past a large proportion (over 40%) of children died before they reached the age of 5 and that up to industrialization more than 90% of the people lived in extreme poverty. A number of media outlets including the New York Times , Der Spiegel and The Guardian have reported on the website and Roser's work . The datasets are licensed under Creative Commons and are widely used in media publications and teaching materials. The website was funded by individual donors, Y Combinator and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .

Roser is considered a critic of the modern mass media . He criticizes the short-term focus of reporting on individual events rather than long-term developments, which leads to a distorted public perception. In contrast to this event-oriented media coverage, Roser advocates a more comprehensive, holistic perspective on issues such as war, poverty, inequality and hunger. The New York Times called his work "an important counterpoint in the constant flood of negative news"

Roser regularly consults private companies, governments and the United Nations on global trends. UN Secretary General António Guterres invited him to a United Nations conference to discuss global development research. Bill Gates called Max Roser "one of his favorite economists".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Max Roser. Accessed August 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: Tigerenten Club, episode 183. Retrieved on August 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Max Roser - Economist. Retrieved August 28, 2019 (American English).
  4. ^ Hilmar Schmundt: Statistics: Happy message . In: Spiegel Online . tape January 1 , 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 28, 2019]).
  5. ^ A b Tina Rosenberg: Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World. In: Opinionator. April 9, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2019 (American English).
  6. ^ Max Roser: Income inequality: poverty falling faster than ever but the 1% are racing ahead . In: The Guardian . March 27, 2015, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed August 28, 2019]).
  7. ^ Our Audience & Coverage. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  8. ^ The past and future of global change - Max's slides for his talk at the UN. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Bill Gates: Data nerds like me will enjoy this @planetmoney episode featuring one of my favorite economists, @ MaxCRoser.http: //b-gat.es/2HStvzy. In: @BillGates. April 21, 2018, accessed August 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Roser, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and statistician
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheimbolanden