Author
Dr. Renu Ann Joseph
Dr. Renu Ann Joseph is an entrepreneur/economist/data scientist with over two decades of global collective experience in different industries. She has spent nearly a decade in insurance, and is currently raising a Venture Capital Fund. In the last seven years she has moved from corporate to being an entrepreneur where she has spun out 2 ventures and 2 podcasts. Her insurtech, Luminant Analytics is focused on improving insurance pricing for US trucking insurance lines by using external data. Her Data Science & AI center of excellence helps companies that are not primarily driven, to use data more effectively using AI and Data science techniques and education.
Her passion for Diversity in Innovation led her to co-create and co-host, Innovation UnderCover, that highlights the unheard voices of innovation. Currently, she hosts a podcast called the Innovation Odyssey Podcast, which focuses on tech entrepreneurs who are global citizens. She is also co-auhtoring a book series called Momentum, the first of which focuses on Women in Insurtech, and is set to release in Fall 2024, in addition to two working papers in Insurance.
Her keen interest in technologies is reflected in her varied data analytics backgrounds which covers statistics and economics all the way to quantum computing. She is an active panelist and moderator on diverse topics like data, AI, QC, diversity & entrepreneurship.
She has a Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Economics (2010). Also an American-Indian, she lives in Basel, Switzerland where she has been a resident for the past eleven years. She was part of the Young Leader’s Conference of 2023 of the American-Swiss Foundation.