Lauren Sager Weinstein

She grew up in Washington, D.C., in a family of engineers.[1] Sager Weinstein completed a bachelor's of arts at Princeton University in 1995.[2][3] She earned a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School in 2002.[3] She met her husband, Jacob Sager Weinstein, whilst at Princeton University.[4]

Sager Weinstein worked as Field and Planning Deputy in Los Angeles where her husband was working as a screenwriter.[5][6][7] She worked for the policy think-tank RAND Corporation.[7] Based on this work, she published Return to Work in California Workers' Compensation in 2005.[8] Sager Weinstein is interested in how transport networks influence cities and how they function.[9]

Sager Weinstein began working for Transport for London in 2002 as a Senior Business Planner.[3] She worked on the introduction of the Oyster card, London's contactless payment card system.[1] She has held various roles at TFL, including Chief of Staff, Head of Oyster Development, Head of Analytics.[10][1] She is the lead for data development.[7] Over 30 million journeys are made on roads and public transport networks in London every day.[11] TFL collect a significant range of data; including ticketing, bus journeys and records from SCOOT traffic detectors.[7] They have a transparent approach to privacy.[12] The big data sets help Sager Weinstein understand patterns and trends, helping customers travel across the network.[13] TFL have an academic partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, looking to develop a big data solution to overcrowding on public transport.[14]

Sager Weinstein established the first long-term funding packing for infrastructure investment at TFL.[13] When Wandsworth Council were forced to close Putney Bridge for emergency repairs, Sager Weinstein set up a transport interchange and increased bus service on nearby routes to help passengers whose journeys might be affected.[14] She provided the transport analysis which kept Londoners moving during the 2012 Summer Olympics.[7] She led the TFL pilot using depersonalised WiFi Data for analysis.[15][16] The WiFi connectivity pilot cost £100,000, but the data was worth £322 million.[17] It revealed that passengers take more than 18 different routes when travelling between King's Cross St Pancras and Waterloo.[18] Sager Weinstein published the report "Review of the TfL WiFi Pilot" in 2017.[4][19]

In 2013 she spoke at the Big Data Analytics conference in London.[20] She was listed in The Female Lead's 20 in Data & Technology.[21][22]