Magali de Bruyn

Magali de Bruyn is a Data Scientist / Research Software Engineer for the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment at UC Berkeley (DSE). She is representing the DSE at COP16. 

Magali applies computer science and community engagement to drive systemic change towards greater sustainability. Her focus is on the technical implementation of Indigenous digital sovereignty for environmental stewardship. To this end, she closely collaborates with Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations, as well as the United Nations, specifically UNEP. She has experience tackling environmental and data challenges in-person in 7 countries across the world (notably in India, Belgium, and the US).

Prior to DSE, Magali applied web scraping, data science, and natural language processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to research sustainable urbanization, environmental economics, and greenwashing. In addition to working at a number of green tech start-ups and at Dalberg, she has led on-the-ground qualitative and quantitative research in rural India on the preservation of sacred groves. She has also developed computer vision pipelines for marine species at Friday Harbor Labs (the University of Washington) and built scrapers to collect all the climate laws in the world for the World Policy Analysis Center at UCLA. Magali graduated with a degree in Computer Science and a concentration in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning from Minerva University and is an alumna of the United World Colleges (UWC). In addition to English, she knows French, Spanish, Dutch, German, and Hindi.