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title: "Karine Serfaty: Maturing the Data Culture within The Economist"
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# [Karine Serfaty: Maturing the Data Culture within The Economist](https://www.coriniumintelligence.com/content/karine-serfaty-maturing-the-data-culture-within-the-economist)

 Written by [Corinium](https://www.coriniumintelligence.com/content/author/corinium) | Jan 26, 2023 10:00:00 AM

### Karine Serfaty, Chief Data Officer for The Economist joins us to talk about what it takes to mature a data culture successfully.

 

 

In this week’s episode of the *Business of Data podcast**, *host Catherine King talks with Karine Serfaty, Chief Data Officer for British Newspaper, The Economist. Together they discuss what green-field opportunities Karine was able to exploit when she walked into her role in 2020, and how she’s setting herself up for data cultural maturity.

In the discussion this week:

- The importance of strategic direction
- Mindset & growth
- Lessons learned
- Data as a mission-critical component
- Pros of not having a *traditional *data background

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