He joined Wolfensohn & Company (2006-09), a private equity firm, as a managing director. He was a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and taught at Georgetown University. He serves on the boards of Partnership for Transparency Fund, Feedback Labs, Open Data Watch, FXB International, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the African University of Science and Technology, the Nelson Mandela Institution, and NOI Polls in Nigeria. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris (now Mines Paris Tech) and holds a Master in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.