Cathy O’Neil, Ph.D.

CEO, O’Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing (ORCAA); Member of the Public Interest Tech Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard and worked as a math professor at Barnard College before switching over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw and as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Opinion and in 2016 wrote the book Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy.

She is the CEO of ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company, and is a member of the Public Interest Tech Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her new book, The Shame Machine: who profits in the new age of humiliation, came out in March 2022.