Curriculum Vitae

Principal Economist

Senior Economist

Postdoctoral Researcher

Investigated trends in market power and their relationship with aggregate productivity using UK Data Service Business Microdata, with the objective of building structural models to explain these phenomena and generate policy implications.

Teaching Assistant

• EC562 Financial Economics: Martingale option pricing, HJB method for option pricing, binomial model (algebra and MATLAB), interest rate models, Monte Carlo simulations and binomial asset pricing in MATLAB and Excel
• EC534 Money and Banking: Theoretical models for money and monetary policy (core text: Champ, Freeman & Haslag, 4th ed.)
• EC314 Data Analysis: Linear programming in Excel, data downloading, HP filtering, regression analysis, report generation

Research Assistant

• RA to Dr. Anthony Savagar
• Replicated the DSGE model of Jaimovich and Floetotto (2008) in MATLAB
• Decomposed TFP from data using various specifications in R
• Numerically compared results across specifications and compiled findings in LaTeX

Summer Intern

• Part of a team working on a nowcasting model to produce quarterly estimates for economic variables
• Data cleaning and analysis using Python
• Transferred and rewrote model code from an older version of MATLAB to the current version, with modifications

Researcher

• Conducted secondary research on developing economies
• Analysed investment potential of countries in terms of fiscal and monetary policy, and medium to long term outlook
• Generated deliverable output in the form of slide decks

Article Trainee (Chartered Accountancy)

Mandatory article clerk training for the Chartered Accountant qualification: auditing, accounting, report generation, and tax return filing.

PhD, Economics

Economics

Master's degree, Economics

Master's degree, Investments and Securities

Chartered Accountant, Accounting and Finance