LinkedIn profile of César Hidalgo César Hidalgo

A Chilean-Spanish-American scientist and professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is also the Director of the Center for Collective Learning, where he studies how societies accumulate knowledge, remember their past, and make decisions about their future. He is best known for his research on economic complexity and how knowledge is organised and disseminated.

He spent nine years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he studied how entire social systems – teams, organisations, cities, and nations – learn. He is the author of Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (2015) and The Infinite Alphabet (2025).