Bio

Nico is an Applied Researcher at Founders Pledge. Previously, he was a predoctoral research fellow in Economics at Harvard University, where he focussed on the determinants of economic mobility. He has co-authored research on social capital using data on 21 billion friendships from Facebook that has appeared in Nature. Before doing research, he worked on various consulting and public policy projects in Germany, the UAE, and South America. He received his MA in Economics from Brown University in 2023 and his BA in Economics from NYU Abu Dhabi in 2019.

Q&A with Nicolaj

Q: If you could choose anyone famous (real or fictional) to have dinner with who would they be and why?

John von Neumann because of his wide-ranging contributions to mathematics, physics, computer science and economics—and because he was known as a great dinner party host.

Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

For a short period of time I wanted to be a lawyer.

Q: If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?

A superhero film starring Chris Hemsworth.