Ben Klemens

Ben Klemens (born April 10, 1975) is an Australian economist, author, and co-host of the podcast 'Pod, Paper, Scissors'. He works for the US Treasury Department and was previously a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center on Social and Economic Dynamics. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Caltech.

Klemens is the author of the proposal to the Unicode consortium for the Falafel emoji, which will be appearing across web platforms in 2019. Provided by Wikipedia