Sondre Ulvund Solstad is The Economist’s Senior Data Journalist. He writes data-driven articles, as well as models, algorithms and simulations to inform coverage throughout the newspaper. He also runs the organization's “call for papers”, which aims to share insights from important new studies on any topic with their global audience.

Since starting at The Economist in February 2020, Sondre’s journalistic work has been cited in over 100 academic publications, as well by the New York Times, Wired, Foreign Policy, BBC World News, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, New York Magazine, Politico, Nature, National Geographic, CNN, the UN, WHO, World Bank, in the annual lecture of the Royal Medical Society, and many others, and been the subject of a documentary short by Vox. 

For his work uncovering the pandemic’s true death toll, he was in 2022 awarded the Inaugural Future of Media Award in Data Journalism, as well as a commendation by the Royal Statistical Society. Upon invitation, he has advised the WHO on how to model the pandemic (2021-2022), and the UN on how to model political unrest (2022). 

Previously, he was at Princeton University, where he was twice awarded the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars for outstanding research in the public interest, and received his doctorate, with general exams in international relations, comparative politics, and quantitative methods and game theory. His dissertation centered on the politics of new technology, broadly defined.