Bastiaan Quast

Bastiaan Quast is a researcher at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an international organization under the United Nations. He holds a PhD in Development Economics from the Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID) and a Master’s in Quantitative Economics and Finance from the University of St. Gallen. His primary research interests include artificial neural networks (R and Python), machine learning, data science, microeconomic estimators, quantum machine learning, and complexity modeling. Dr. Quast has contributed to expanding machine learning analyses into statistics and social sciences through his development of the 'rnn' framework in R.

Before joining ITU, he worked at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Internet Society, and The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) in The Hague. His career reflects a blend of academic research and applied work in international organizations.