Njogu Mbau

I work at the intersection of data science, econometrics, and impact evaluation, building the pipelines, models, and infrastructure that turn messy real-world data into rigorous evidence for governments, researchers, and institutions.

Over 15+ years I've applied this across the World Bank, oTree, and Busara, working on development, governance, and public policy, particularly across the Global South.

Based in Nairobi, Kenya. Avid golfer. Let’s connect!

MITx Online — MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) 2025 · Remote

Strathmore University — Master of Business Administration (MBA) 2025 · Nairobi, Kenya

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology — B.Sc. Computer Science 2012 · Nairobi, Kenya

World Bank Group — Consultant 2026 – Present · Nairobi, Kenya

oTree Open-Source Research Foundation — Research Associate 2024 – Present · Nairobi, Kenya / Remote

World Bank Group — Consultant 2022 – 2024 · Washington, DC, USA

World Bank Group — Consultant 2021 – 2022 · Nairobi, Kenya / Remote

Busara — Director of Data and Software 2017 – 2020 · Nairobi, Kenya

Busara — Senior Manager, Software and Data Analytics 2015 – 2017 · Nairobi, Kenya

Upwork — Freelance Software Engineer 2011 – 2015 · Remote

Beyonic Technologies — Senior Software Engineer 2013 – 2014 · Nairobi, Kenya

Smart Smartphones for Mental Health

A.R. Ani, A. Alvi, S. Saheel, T. Ahmed, D.L. Chen, Z. Wahhaj, N. Mbau · IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Montreal, QC · pp. 633–637 · 2026 Published

doi:10.1109/CCECE68150.2026.11610416

Factors Influencing Customer Satisfaction with Online Food Delivery Platforms in Nairobi County

B.N. Mbau · MBA Thesis, Strathmore University · 2025 Published

hdl.handle.net/11071/15761

What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court

B. Flanagan, N. Mbau, D. Chen, K. Silver · Journal of Social Ontology · Available at SSRN 5544159 · 2026 Forthcoming

Optimizing Judicial Efficiency: A Sharing Economy Approach to Reducing Court Backlogs

D.L. Chen, Y.H. He, N. Mbau · Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design · 2026 Forthcoming

oTree-QVSR: An Open-Source Application for Quadratic Voting Survey Research

N. Mbau, D.L. Chen · 2025 Under Review

Kantian Morality in Non-Human Primates: Structural Estimation from Ultimatum and Social Dilemma Games

N. Mbau, L. Sun, F. De Petrillo, W. Lu, D.L. Chen · 2026 Submitted

Languages

Data & ML

Research & Econometrics

Cloud & DevOps

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