# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cesar-a-hidalgo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:04:15.593Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cesar-a-hidalgo"
name: "César A. Hidalgo"
slug: "cesar-a-hidalgo"
description: "César Augusto Hidalgo Ramaciotti is a Chilean born, Chilean-Spanish-American physicist, author, and entrepreneur. He is a tenured professor at the department of social and behavioral sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics and director of the Center for Collective Learning, a multidisciplinary research laboratory with offices at the Toulouse School of Economics and at Corvinus University of Budapest. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester's Alliance Manchester Business School. Hidalgo is known for pioneering the field of economic complexity by developing concepts and methods such as relatedness and the Economic Complexity Index. He is also known for the creation of public data infrastructure, as a co-creator of The Observatory of Economic Complexity, as well as several national scale economic data visualization platforms including Data USA, Data Mexico, and Data Saudi. Hidalgo works also on applied artificial intelligence and digital democracy. Before moving to France, to found the Center for Collective Learning, Hidalgo was a professor at MIT where he directed the Collective Learning group. He is also a founder and partner at Datawheel, a data visualization and distribution company."
tagline: "Chilean researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cesar_Hidalgo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-12-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.888338666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/cesifoti"
    handle:    "cesifoti"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "セザー・ヒダルゴ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump