Who We Are

TEZO Analytics’ core activities span the high quality applied research and the development of innovative tools and solutions to improve the decision-making of its clients and users. Its consulting work utilizes qualitative and quantitative research methods and analytics. TEZO Analytics is also developing tools and methods with a range of existing and emerging technologies to navigate today’s and tomorrow’s complexities, support stakeholders in their transition to new business and governance models, evaluate potential business solutions across the diverse scenarios under the complex environments, and create synergies between stakeholders to enable high impact collaboration.

People

Dr. Lisa Klautzer is a co-founder of TEZO Analytics and the co-owner and managing director of an Austrian company dedicated to develop and manage real estate and has recently completed a construction project adding 800m2 of affordable living space to the city center of Graz (AT). Prior to her entrepreneurial activities, she was a researcher at the RAND Corporation, an international think tank, and associate director in the research unit of the global management consultancy CEB (now part of the technological research and consulting firm Gartner). Her research ranged from analyzing models for patient-centric health care and new servitization in the medical sector, developing an indicator system for sustainable transportation and mobility, building a data repository and a policy information system for transnational transportation networks, assessing data privacy and security policies, providing strategies for higher education and Science and Technology (S&T) policies, and assessing the link between corporate governance and economic openness, to designing best practices for recruiting a diverse workforce and promoting female leadership. She has a law degree from the Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz (AT), and a Ph.D in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica (USA).

Swaptik Chowdhury has experience in Climate Change and Science-and-Technology Policy, focusing on multi-objective optimization, human modeling, and simulation. His research interests include climate change adaptation, emergent technologies, misinformation/disinformation, and algorithmic fairness in AI. Swaptik leverages a mixed-methods approach, including advanced network analysis, different machine learning methodologies, complex systems analysis, and agent-based modeling and simulation, to guide decision-making around critical policies. His recent work includes estimating the economic implications of increased storage to accommodate renewable energy generation and investigating hate in online discourse in the EU. Swaptik is pursuing a Ph.D. in public policy from Pardee RAND Graduate School and is an assistant policy researcher at RAND Corporation. He holds an M. Phil in Public Policy from Pardee Graduate School, an M.S. in Structural Engineering from Arizona State University, and a B. Tech in Civil Engineering from VIT University, India. Before his current role, Swaptik worked as a forensic structural engineer in New York and Ohio. Swaptik received the 2022 Roger Levien Fellowship and participated in the Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, in 2022. He also interned at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH), Vienna, in the summer of 2023. With his diverse background and expertise, Swaptik brings a unique perspective to his research and policy work and is committed to positively impacting society.

Dr. Seo Yeon Hong co-founded TEZO Analytics and was a core collaborator throughout February 2023. She is currently working in the United Nations World Food Programme's  Analytics & Science for Food & Nutrition Team. She also has many years of experience consulting the World Bank as a senior economist consultant and worked as a researcher for the RAND Corporation, an international think tank. She specializes in cost benefit analysis, monitoring and evaluation, impact evaluation and economic and social research and survey design in many developing countries. She earned her M.B.A from the KDI School of Public Policy, Seoul, South Korea and her Ph.D in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, United States. Prior to her M.B.A, she worked as a systems engineer for LG Electronics in South Korea and Brazil. In her free activities, she enjoys learning about new technologies, cultures and languages around the world.