Wolfgang Fengler is the World Bank’s Lead Economist in Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) for the Europe and Central Asia. Aftershock (2020) featured him as one of the world’s 100 leading futurists and the German weekly DER SPIEGEL called him a “big data virtuoso”. Wolfgang spent 20 years with the World Bank during which he lived in the USA, Asia, Africa, and Europe.