Albert Alwang Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Blacksburg, Virginia

• Formerly Research Associate
• Served as principal or co-principal investigator on projects addressing economic, community, and workforce development issues including strategic plans, market analyses, feasibility studies and economic impact analyses.
• Co-led and designed a university wide initiative (Vibrant Virginia) to support faculty community engagement by administering funding, designing events fostering faculty and community member partnerships, and promoting.
• Co-led and designed a university wide initiative (Vibrant Virginia) to support faculty community engagement by administering funding, designing events fostering faculty and community member partnerships, and promoting.
• Designed facilitation sessions and data collections for projects, engaging all stakeholders in executing regional economic development strategies.
• Drafted sponsored project proposals and contracts with public, private, and non-profit funding organizations and engaged in business and project development through external networking and presenting research at.

West Lafayette, IN

• Authored award-winning thesis titled “What are the challenges and benefits of rural-to-rural internal migration in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from a panel study in Malawi.”
• Analyzed a comprehensive national representative household panel survey that tracks 4,000 households and more than 15,000 individuals, providing information on demographics, education, consumption, employment, income.
• Constructed a dataset to test hypotheses on the causation and… Show more
• Constructed a dataset to test hypotheses on the causation and consequences of migration
• Designed the conceptual framework, and built an empirical model outlining the dynamics of migration
• Developed econometric techniques to account for data and selectivity issues inherent in migration

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Oversaw research on the evaluation policies at various multi- and bilateral aid agencies and on the role of agriculture in development
• Supported two Senior Fellows’ research in the areas of agriculture, food security, aid effectiveness, biofuels, trade, health, development policy, and corruption
• Coordinated research, conducted literature reviews, maintained current events on relevant subjects, summarized meetings/conferences attended in fellow’s absence, and provided feedback on… Show more
• Coordinated research, conducted literature reviews, maintained current events on relevant subjects, summarized meetings/conferences attended in fellow’s absence, and provided feedback on potential research opportunities
• Simplified policy and research to effectively communicate to a larger audience, in an effort to improve developed countries’ policies towards developing nations
• Researched and maintained a newsletter on cash-on-delivery aid and other innovative performance based aid programs

Blacksburg, VA

• Gained extensive knowledge of STATA (statistics programming software), cleaning datasets, programming and generating new datasets, interpreting statistical output, and statistical testing.
• Cleaned and programmed data from a farm survey on legume production in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Created graphics using country-level data on agricultural research expenditures.

Managua, Nicaragua & Cali, Colombia

• Participated in development of new protocol for gathering data on crop variety adoption and its impacts and organized data and workshop output for the Socio-Economic and Impact Analysis team.
• Provided budget, logistical, and planning support for workshops to collect data on national agriculture production.
• Supervised schedules, worksheets, materials, and participant lists for workshops held throughout Central America, while based in Managua, Nicaragua.
• Led and facilitated… Show more
• Led and facilitated workshops on agriculture production throughout Central America.
• Tracked, cleaned, and analyzed data for us in a national economic surplus analysis. Show less

Ecuador

• Collaborated with team of interns that designed surveys to gather costs on conservation agricultural practices to mitigate soil erosion in the Andes
• Conducted surveys in Spanish on farms in rural Ecuador (Chimborazo Watershed)
• Prepared partial budgets for various crops and cultivation practices prevalent in the region
• Co-authored report, “Determining Costs of Conventional Conservation Agricultural Practices”

Master’S Degree, Agricultural Economics

Activities and Societies: Water Supply in Developing Countries, Monitoring and Evaluation Team Leader Awarded Agricultural Economics.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics

Activities and Societies: Virginia Tech Varsity Men's Soccer Graduated with Honors: Cum Laude; Dean's List; Atlantic Coast Conference.