Dana Kassem
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Dana Kassem

I am an economist working in tech. As a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix, I work on causal inference and structural models for promotional media. Outside Netflix, I am a researcher: currently writing on consumption-linked debt and electricity access in Kenya, and starting a multi-country project on behavioral LLMs for climate adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics. My doctoral work was about the impact of electrification on industrialization and firm productivity, and the structural estimation of production functions.

What ties it all together is methods: causal inference, economic theory, and increasingly AI. I think the most interesting problems sit where rigorous empirical methods meet ambiguous real-world questions, and I would rather work across tech, policy, and research than pick a single lane.

I mentor and volunteer my skills to causes I am passionate about. I also co-organize gatherings of economists working in tech, including the NABE TEC Europe Meetup.

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