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Jasmin Baier |
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Ari Blanco |
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Zhuoran Chen |
Interests: Development Economics, Infrastructure Investment, Public Finance
Experience: B.A. in Economics from University of Texas at Austin (cum laude); Internship at the China Development Bank’s Project Appraisal Department I, JIC Trust Co., Ltd. (China) and Unipec America, Inc. (Houston, TX)
Skills: Stata, Microsoft Office
Chinese (native), English (fluent)
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Sanjam Chhabra |
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Shwetha Eapen |
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Yijia Gao |
Interests: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Energy Economics, Transportation Development
Experience: B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies (Honors) from Oberlin College, Ohio; University of Cambridge Pembroke College Spring Semester Programme; Internships at Deloitte (Risk Advisory), WeWork (Growth Strategy & Operations), and Foresight (Environmental Consulting); RA at Oberlin College and Columbia University; Thesis on home-sharing platforms and local renters from an environmental justice perspective; extensive research on urban transportation development
Skills: Advanced Excel, Python, R, Stata, ArcGIS, LaTeX
English (native), Mandarin Chinese (native), Japanese (Fluent - JLPT N1)
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Valentina Goetz |
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Pablo Gordillo Coutino |
Interests: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Impact Evaluation
Experience: Bachelor’s degree from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City, Mexico); Short-term consultant at World Bank, Trade and Competitiveness division on research projects about productivity, labor economics, and trade; Research assistant at Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City, Mexico).
Skills: Advanced Excel, Stata, LaTex, Basic R
Spanish (native), English (advanced)
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Rhea Gupta |
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Preksha Jain |
Interests: Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Public Policy
Experience: B.A. (Honours) Economics from Hans Raj College, University of Delhi; Associate (Private Equity) at the Bain Capability Centre, Bain & Co., Gurugram; Intern at BMR Advisors (now Deloitte), Gurugram; Intern at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
Skills: Advanced Excel, Advanced Qualtrics, Intermediate Alteryx, Intermediate Tableau, Stata, R
English (native), Hindi (native), French (basic)
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Sambath Jayapregasham |
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Sifan Jiang |
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Mark Khalil |
Interests: Behavioral Economics, Healthcare, Cities, Entrepreneurship
Experience: B.S. in Financial Economics, University of Toronto (High distinction); Co-Founder and Co-President of the Behavioural Economics Student Group; Two-time Summer Analyst at Deloitte Canada in Economics Consulting and Infrastructure Advisory; Studied abroad in Hong Kong, Japan, and Melbourne
Skills: Excel (advanced), STATA (proficient), LaTeX
Arabic (native), English (native), French (proficient)
Flying (80+ hours, single engine Cessna), Scuba Diving (40+ dives)
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Scott Kim |
Interests: Development Economics
Experience: B.S. in Business and Political Economy (magna cum laude) from NYU Stern School of Business; Economic Affairs Intern at United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Research Assistant at NYU Stern School of Business; Research Intern at Hudson Institute; Risk Advisory Intern (Financial Services Industry) at Deloitte Hong Kong; Government Affairs Intern at The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore
Skills: Python, R, Stata, MATLAB, Advanced Excel, Advanced Word
English (native), Korean (professional)
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Ernest Lim |
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Dalton Mattson |
Interests: Development Economics, Machine Learning, Financial Economics, Public Sector Economics
Experience: B.A. Economics and Statistics from Gustavus Adolphus College (Summa Cum Laude), Data Analyst Intern for the National Center for Education Statistics, Data Scientist for US Government
Skills: Advanced Python, SQL, Excel, Basic R, Basic HTML, Basic Javascript
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Anshul Maudar |
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Vatsal Nahata |
Interests: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Sector Economics, Public Policy
Experience: B.A. (H) in Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi; Research Intern, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India; Intern at the Paytm Payments Banks, worked on Financial Inclusion and Digitalization; Presented paper on “Analysis of Demonetization & Digitalization,” at SIBR conference, Seoul, South Korea; Represented Govt. of India in the G20 Youth Summit, Bejing; Represented India in UN Youth Assembly in New York (2018)
Skills: Stata (learning), Microsoft Excel
Hindi, English, Bengali
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Michael Read |
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Jaya Sambhavi |
Interests: Development Economics, Environment Economics, International Trade, Poverty Alleviation
Experience: B.A. in Economics from Miranda House, University of Delhi; Intern at Industrial Vertical, NITI Aayog, Government of India, analyzed scope of plastic recycling sector in India as a part of National Material Recycling Policy; Intern at India Ratings and Research Private Linited, analyzed the scope of IPOs in India; Volunteer at Earth Saviours Foundation (NGO based in Haryana, India) for more than 8 years.
Skills: MS Office, Google Drive; Analytical Skills: Research, Organization, Data Interpretation
Fluent in English, Hindi, and Maithili
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Shreemayi Samujjwala |
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Nishka Sharma |
Interests: Economic Development, Public Policy Research, Digital Economy, Labor Economics
Experience: B.Sc. (Research) Economics, Shiv Nadar University; Research intern at the Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India; RA at the Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business. The research focused on the impact of natural resource allocation to firms and tunneling of funds; RA at the Digital Identity Research Initiative, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Co-authored a research paper that focused on the impact of implementation of biometric digital identity in workfare programs. Another co-authored research paper focuses on how tax compliance is affected by the demonetization of high denomination Indian currency notes.
Skills: Stata, MS Office, LATEX, Basic GIS, R (learning), Python (learning)
English (fluent), Hindi (native)
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Brian Shih |
Interests: Development Economics, Applied Econometrics, Urban Economics, Labor Economics and Environmental Economics
Experience: B.A. / B.Ec. (Econometrics, Finance and English literature) from the University of Sydney
Skills: Advanced Excel, Stata, R, EViews, MATLAB
English (native), Mandarin Chinese (native), German (basic)
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Leon Sim |
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Preetha Srinivasan |
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Nithya Srinivasan |
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Leo Sun |
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Shambhavi Tiwari |
Interests: Development, Behavioral- and Neuro Economics, Family Economics, Political Economy
Experience: B.A. Economics-Mathematics, Columbia University (departmental honors in Economics), Senior thesis: Over-optimism and Confidence on the savings of agricultural community of Uttar Pradesh; Research Fellow, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University; Research Assistant, ACT Lab Dr. Sheena Sethi Iyengar, Columbia Business School, (social psychology and behavioral economics); Research Intern, International Organization for Migration, Dhaka (migration crises in Bangladesh and neighboring countries)
Skills: Stata, R, LATEX
English (native), Hindi (native), French (advanced), Arabic (intermediate)
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Astha Vohra |
Interests: Development Economics, Econometrics, Political Economy, Art and Art History
Experience: B. A. Economics (Honors) from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi; Process Developer at Genpact’s Analytics Department in Gurugram, India.
Skills: Tableau, R, SAS Analytics, SAS Base Programmer, Advanced Excel and VBA
English (native), Hindi (native)
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Jiewen Xiao |
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Dalton Zhang |
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Hans Zhu |
Interests: Development Economics, Public Policy, Chinese economy
Experience: B.A. in Economics and History from Brandeis (summa cum laude) Senior thesis on China’s transport infrastructure investment and economic growth.
RA at China Renmin University International Monetary Institute: Research on RMB internationalization, local government debt, and monetary policy. RA and TAship at Brandeis University: East Asian history.
Skills: Stata, Excel, Research
English (fluent) ; Chinese (native) ; Japanese (intermediate)
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