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Soha Ahmed |
Interests: Development, Trade, Monetary Policy, Labor Migration, Gender & Economics,
Experience: RA for Kimberly Clausing; Research intern at Mercy Corps, RA for Todd Pugatch, Tutor for intro economics + econometrics at Reed College
Skills: Beginner Stata, R, Proficient Spanish, Conversational Urdu
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Svankita Arora |
Interests: Development, gender, political economy
Experience: Training consultant at SEWA Bharat, New Delhi
Skills: BA Economics, STATA, SurveyCTO
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Manvi Beniwal |
Interests: Financial Economics, Development Economics
Experience: Internship at WTO
Skills: B.A. Economics & Statistics
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Nicole Cao |
Interests: Development, International Labor Economics, Environment, Gender, Race, and Inequality
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Aditi Chaudhary |
Interests: Environmental Economics and Energy Markets, International Trade and Finance, Development Economics
Experience:
- Research assistant to Professor Nicholas Ryan and Professor Prabhat Barnwal
- Policy research Intern at NITI Aayog (Government of India)
- Research Intern at Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), New Delhi
Education:
-M.A. International and Development Economics from Yale University
- B.A. (Hons.) Economics from Hansraj College, University of Delhi, India
Skills:
- R
- STATA
- Python
- MS Excel
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Xi Chen |
Education:
- M.A. IDE - Yale University
- B.S. (Highest Honors) Managerial Economics - University of California, Davis
Professional Experience:
- Intern at Nio Capital
- Intern at Sailing Capital
- Summer Analyst at Gobi Partners
- Research Analyst at The Forever Nature Capital Foundation
Skills:
- Python, C/C++, MATLAB, R, Stata, LaTeX
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Ruoyu Chen |
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Shang Rong Chia |
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Pushyami Chilakapati |
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Chloe Chong |
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Valerie Chuang |
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Harriet Cross |
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Karan Daryanani Daryanani |
Interests: Innovation and Industrial Organisation, Complex systems, Environmental Economics and Policy.
Professional Experience: Managing multi-stakeholder partnerships and program design (Fashion for Good), Venture building (Yunus Social Business), and leading community interventions (Rethinking Economics).
Skills: R, STATA, Python, SPSS, E-Views, Microsoft Office and Excel.
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Nadeem Demian |
Education: Yale University M.A. IDE (2020-2022), Yale School of the Environment M.S. Environmental Management (2020-2022), Princeton Unviersity B.A. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2015-2019)
Professional Experience: Studying the ecology of agricultural systems in rural Kenya (Mpala Research Centre), working on local conservation projects in New Jersey (D&R Greenway Land Trust), and facilitating a number of environmental justice initiatives (D&R Greenway Land Trust, Heartwood Podcast)
Interests: Climate finance, sustainable development, agricultural development, and mitigation banking.
Skills: R, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office
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Shubhangi Gokhroo |
Interests: Development economics (poverty and gender)
Experience: Research Intern at J-PAL, Centre for Policy Research, Social and Political Research Foundation and IIM - Ahmedabad
Skills: Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi (IN)
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Elle Hughes |
Interests: Monetary and fiscal policy governance and interactions; intergenerational, behavioral, and environmental economic analysis and policy implications.
Experience: Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy at the New Zealand Treasury (2018-2021), with a focus on aligning institutional systems’ design with long-term objectives. Broad experience leading complex policy processes across teams and agencies, providing verbal and written briefings and analysis, and directly supporting senior leadership, including the Treasury Secretary.
Education: BA Economics, Politics and International Relations from the University of Melbourne (2017), with first class honors.
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Darshna Jadhav |
Interests: Public Policy, Migration and Climate Change, Development Economics
Experience: Worked at IIT, Mumbai as a research assistant. Co-authored a research paper on, ‘Projection of Sea Level Rise by the year 2100 at the Indian Coastline and its implication’
Skills: B.A. in Economics, R, STATA, ArcGIS, QGIS and LaTeX
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Shruti Jha |
Interests: Development, gender, environmental and climate change economics
Experience: Office of Ms. Mitali Nikore, Economist (Feb ‘21 to Aug ‘21) - Research Advisor (Jul - Aug ‘21); Senior Research Assistant (Jun - Jul ‘21), Research Assistant (Feb - Jun ‘21); KPMG Global Services (Jun ‘17 - Apr ’ 20) - Business Associate (Oct ‘19 - Apr ‘20), Analyst (Jun ‘17 - Oct ‘19)
Skills: B.A. (Honours) in Business Economics, Gargi College, University of Delhi (2017), SPSS Statistics, SAS software, Advanced Excel
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Lu Jin |
Interests: Consulting, International Development, Political Economy, Psychology, Behavioral Economics
Experience: BA Economics from Boston College
Management Consulting Intern- Roland Berger; Wealth Management Intern- Baoneng China
Skills: Excel, R, Stata, Word, PowerPoint, Chinese, English, Japanese,
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Manushi Kumar |
Interests:
Education Policy, Labor Economics, Health, Climate Change, Gender, and Behavioral Economics
Experience:
Research Analyst: Health, Areté Advisors (June 2019- Dec 2020)
Research Intern: Lok Sabha, Parliament of India
Research Intern: Digital Microlending: Mahindra Comviva
Skills:
Research, STATA, R, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, French (Working Proficiency), Classical Music, Dancing
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Aishwarya Kuruttukulam |
Interests: Development Finance, Impact Investing, Development Consulting, Policy, Data, Climate Change, Gender
Experience: Development, Public Sector Consulting, Venture Capital-Impact Responsible Investing
Skills: Data Analysis for Social Scientists (R), designing and running randomized control trials
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Manasi Kutwal |
Interests: Policy Analysis, South Asian Development, Rural Development
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Manojna Lanka |
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Marah Mohamed |
Interests: Economic growth and development, Poverty, Governance and institutions
Experience: 4 years of experience as a research analyst at D3: Designs, Data, Decisions, implementing and managing quantitative and qualitative national research projects in 10 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region for various clients, including Facebook, the Pew Research center, and the U.S. State Department
Skills: International project management, Research & data analysis, Proficient Arabic, SPSS, Stata
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Sanjana Muthukrishnan |
Interests:
- Labor
- Health
- Poverty
- Gender
Experience:
- Research Assistant to Professor Costas Arkolakis, Joseph Altonji and John Eric Humphries
- Policy Intern at J-PAL
- Research Intern at Invest India, Centre for Civil Society, Confederation of Indian Industry
Education:
- BA Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, India
- Data and Policy Summer Scholar, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Skills:
- Stata
- R
- Python
- LaTeX
- QGIS
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Anjana Nair |
Interests: International Trade, Political Economy
Experience: Research Assistant at LSU Economics and Policy Research Group
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Meng Qiao |
Interests: Labor Economics, Cultural Economics, Interdisciplinary Studies of Economics, Psychology & Sociology
Experience: China Life Company Credit Appraisal Internship, Head of Dance Troupe in LHR, RUC
Skills: Research, Photography, Dancing
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Aishwarya Rai |
Interests: Humanitarian Crisis Response, Post-Conflict Development, Infrastructure Development, Capacity-Building
Professional Experience:
- Risk and Child Safeguarding Intern, Education Cannot Wait
- Transfer Pricing Analyst, EY
- Economic Affairs Intern for Landlocked Developing Countries, UN OHRLLS
Education:
B.S.B.A, Economics
Other:
Water Rights and Access in Palestine, Schell Center for Human Rights, Yale Law School
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Manasi Rao |
Interests: Political Economy of Development
Experience: two years of research assistantships: one year of fieldwork, one year of datawork
Skills: Stata, R, ArcGIS, QGIS, Research
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Shereein Saraf |
Interests: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Gender, Social Norms, Rural-Urban Models
Experience:
Teaching Fellow for ECON 326: Fundamentals of Economics Development
Jr. Research Consultant at U.N. Capital Development Fund
Advocacy Intern at Pricewaterhouse Coopers
BA (Hons.) Economics from Shri Ram College of Commerce
Skills: Microsoft Office, R, Stata, Overleaf (LaTeX), Zotero, Adobe Photoshop
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Vaishnavi Sinha |
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Vanessa Siy Van |
Interests: Health policy, Development economics, and Multidisciplinary-multisectoral policy reserach, Systems research particularly in low-and-middle-income countries
Experience: Research specialist and consultant for the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, the Philippine government’s primary socioeconomic policy thinktank. Part of the team that conducted the first comprehensive rreview of the Philippines’ national reproductive health law and a review of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hispital services utilization in the Philippines. Research specialist for the Ateneo de Manila University conducting health policy and economic research on childhood nutrition, school feeding programs, and multisectoral policies in decentralized government settings wtih a multidisciplinary lab. Lecturer for the university’s Health Sciences Program.
Skills: I graduated Class Valedictorian from the Ateneo de Manila University with two degrees (BS Health Sciencesand AB Economics) in 2018. or the last 4 years, I have immersed myself in public policy research using skills from both public health and economics. I have experience in academic as well as government research, with a focus on policy in low-and-middle-income countries like the Philippines. As my professional work includes communiccating policy reserach to non-specialists, I have also developed skills in public speaking to an array of audiences, ranging from elected officials, career bureaucrats, community stakeholders, researchers, to students. While employing a variety of policy analysis methods for my work, I write and prepare manuscripts for publication.
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Lakshimi Swaminathan |
Interests: Political Economy, Development in Africa & Asia, Labour Economics, International Affairs, Geopolitics, Policymaking, Econometrics
Experience: Interned at the Center for African Studies at University of Mumbai (June - August 2021) - Researched change in the perspective of Indian soft-power in Africa after the advent of Narendra Modi; Interned at Nation for NAMO (May - June 2020) - Co-contributed to a comprehensive framework of ranking Indian states on the indicators “Inclusive Development” & “Employment & Skill Development”
Skills: B.A (Hons) Economics, Working knowledge of R, DELF A2 in French, Completed the Data & Policy Summer Scholars Program at University of Chicago
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Andre Tng |
Interests: Urban development, housing and city infrastructure planning, global affairs, tech
Experience: COVID-19 emergency infrastructure and quarantine housing policy
Skills: BSc Economics, London School of Economics
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Simeng Wang |
Interests: Economic consulting, non-profit, NGO, International Development, think-tanks, and financial services
Experience: International Political Economy & Asian Investment Spring Intern at American Enterprise Institute; PTA at McKinsey & Co.; Industry Research Intern at G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance; Research Intern at Public Democracy; Summer Intern at Eleison Group
Skills: R, Excel, Tableau, Python (Pandas), Stata, Word, PowerPoint, Squarespace, HubSpot, Canva, CFA Level (May 2021), Chinese, English
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Aijing Wu |
Interests: Development economics, sustainable development, inequality
Experience: B.A. in Economics and B.A. in Sociology (minor) from Renmin University of China. Internship at M&E Team of UNDP China, International Economics and Finance Institute, Chief Economist Team of KPMG China. RA at National Academy of Development and Strategy of RUC, Institute on Poverty Research of PKU, Institute of New Structural Economics of PKU
Skills: STATA, R
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Tianyi Zhou |
Interests: Development economics, public economics, early childhood development
Experience: Junior Associate - New York Center for Foreign Policy Affairs; Strategy Consulting INtern - Bain & Company
Skills: R, Stata, Java, Python, SPSS
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