Hi there, thanks for stopping by!
Hi and welcome to my personal website! After graduating from a Master’s in International
Economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute in the summer of 2022, I relocated to Dakar, Senegal, where
I am working as a Research Assistant on the Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programs within DIME at The World Bank.
I (more or less) regularly update this website with blog posts on all things related to statistical computing and economics. Most of my blog posts leverage R, Python, and Stata and have an applied angle.
Outside of work, I enjoy trying new recipes, art in all its forms, and hiking
in my alpine backyard.
About me
Experience
The World Bank, DIME
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Military Service as a Military Canteen Manager and Lightweight Truck Driver. Rank : Private First Class.
Education
Geneva Graduate Institute
- MA in International Economics, Specialization in Development Economics
- Relevant Coursework : Impact Evaluation (5.75), Microeconomic Development : Market Failures (PhD. Course) (5.5), Microeconomic Development : Other Topics (PhD. Course) (5.5), Development Economics (5.5), Social Networks (5.75), Macroeconomics B (6)
- Thesis : The Impact of Global Environmental Governance on Innovation; Revisiting the Porter Hypothesis at the International Level.
University of Lausanne, HEC Lausanne
- 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
- 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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