Rishi Siddharth

consultant·writer·Penn data science

From Menlo Park, now in New York. I help tech companies and investors decide where to build teams, and I write about AI, markets and geopolitics. The world is changing fast, and I'm excited to be part of it.

Experience AI Timeline Writing
Rishi with his family
With friends at an overlook in Hawaii
Playing chess
Rishi at a podium
Playing soccer
At an event
On the pitch

About

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→ consultant @ Zinnov · globalization + PE advisory
→ MS Data Science @ Penn Engineering
→ building internal AI tools · running AI Wednesdays
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→ American University · a year at LSE
→ NASA Artemis II · NSF/NSA ML research
→ AI startup · climate data @ LSE
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→ 📁 We Are the Neanderthals ↗
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Education

University of Pennsylvania, Penn Engineering
American University
London School of Economics

Interests

Soccer History & Empires AI & Tech Policy Books Climate Finance Travel Hiking

Things that give me hope

Global life expectancy

73 years

up from 29 in 1800

Global literacy rate

87%

up from 12% in 1820

source: Our World in Data

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New York, NY / Menlo Park, CA