About me

Experience

The World Bank, DIME

2023-current (Dakar, Senegal)
  • Research Assistant on the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programs at The World Bank (DIME).
  • Contributed to the cleaning, description and analysis of data from 5 Sahelian countries participating in the RCT.
  • Contributed to the collection process of a follow-up survey in Senegal

The World Bank, EAWPV

2022-2023 (Dakar, Senegal)
  • Research Assistant in Poverty and Distributional Analytics (UNV)
  • Contributed to the computation of national multilevel poverty indices for Senegal based on household survey data and drafted a Poverty Outlook analyzing the evolution of poverty and inequality.
  • Contributed to the computation of national multilevel poverty indices for Senegal based on household survey data and drafted a Poverty Outlook analyzing the evolution of poverty and inequality.

Geneva Graduate Institute

2020-2022 (Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Research Assistant for the PANARCHIC project under the supervision of Prof. James Hollway.
  • Collaborated on several R packages providing tools for the analysis of multimodal networks as well as data packages to analyze international cooperation within a network framework.
  • Contributed to IHEIDdown, an R-Package enabling IHEID students to write their thesis, and create reports and presentations in R-Markdown.

OECD

Jun.-Sept. 2021 (Paris, France)
  • Quantitative Intern in the Working Party on Shipbuilding of the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation.
  • Performed demand & supply analysis of freight vessels with ship-level data as well as shipbuilding capacity analysis with ORBIS firm-level data.
  • Developed an internal R-Package of data handling and visualization tools as well as a Shiny dashboard visualizing the evolution of ship prices.

University of Lausanne, HEC Lausanne

Feb.–Nov. 2019 (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Teaching Assistant for Strategy of Innovation, a MSc. Management course given by Prof. Annamaria Conti
  • Created course material (executive summaries of papers and case studies, interactive slide decks, and the exams) for a newly introduced class on Innovation Management and Economics.
  • Successfully implemented a new unit on the economics of innovation that was integrated into the class.

Swiss Air Force

2016-2017 (Payerne, Switzerland)
  • Military Service as a Military Canteen Manager and Lightweight Truck Driver. Rank : Private First Class.

Education

Geneva Graduate Institute

2020-2022 (Geneva, Switzerland)

University of Lausanne, HEC Lausanne

2017-2020 (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • BSc in Economics.
  • Exchange Semester at Maastricht University (Spring 2020)
  • Exchange Semester at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Fall 2019)
  • Summer Language School at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (Summer 2018)

EF Beijing

Summer 2017 (Beijing, China)
  • Intensive Course in Mandarin Chinese. Language Exam : HSK 2, A2 European Reference Level.

Skills

  • R
    • Package development, Shiny dashboards, statistical modelling
  • Stata
    • Statistical modelling
  • Python
    • Statistical modelling & data cleaning
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript
    • Static site generation
    • Data visualization with JS libraries
  • SQL
    • Querying from SQL databases

Languages

  • German
    • Mother Tongue
  • French
    • Mother Tongue
  • Swiss German
    • Mother Tongue
  • English
    • C2 level
  • Mandarin Chinese
    • A2 Level
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Bernhard Bieri

Research Assistant on the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programs
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The World Bank (DIME)

Dakar, Senegal
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