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Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Global Energy and Extractives, Worldwide- Analyze the affordability and accessibility of energy including electricity using household income and expenditure surveys for about forty countries.- Devise the econometric model to assess the causality between energy consumption and economic development.- Write the energy access chapter in the Global Tracking Framework report.- Review energy project portfolio of the World Bank from 2000.- Collect the basic data to analyze power system optimization in Philippines and Afghanistan.ECSEG, Energy, Sustainable Development Sector Unit, Europe and Central Asia - Belarus: Conducted a Poverty and Social Impact Assessment (PSIA) using the 2007-2011 Belarus Household Budget Survey to define the level of electricity tariff and energy affordability in an attempt to minimize the adverse impact on poor households.ECSSO, Social Development, Sustainable Development Sector Unit, Europe and Central Asia- Romania: Performed a comprehensive qualitative research to formulate a multidimensional index which categorizes marginalized communities into three types, poor infrastructure access, economically disadvantaged, and small and isolated area.- Selected variables and generated indicators to identify marginalized urban areas using 2002 and 2011 Romanian Census survey data and multidimensional index methodology.DECPI, Poverty and Inequality, Development Research Group - Jordan: Investigated the consistency and accuracy of datasets; checked the comparability among the Labor Force Survey, Household Expenditure and Income Survey, and Firm Census survey.- Uzbekistan: Replaced missing values; reshaped and merged the dataset, Uzbekistan Regional Panel Survey, in 2005; performed descriptive statistics.- Vietnam: Provided the baseline survey data to measure the effectiveness of Vietnamese school reform.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Course: Evaluation of Programs & Project Helped students to design an impact evaluation of a policy or intervention and to to evaluate data using statistical package program (Professor Gillette Hall)

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Course: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for Research and Evaluation in Development Helped students understand basic conceptions of quantitative and qualitative research methodology Worked with students to develop their research project

Washington D.C. Metro Area

 Assist the research work on on the history of this conspiracy trial (1929-31) held when India was a British colony Investigate materials and articles relevant to the topic on Nationalism, Violence and Legal history of the empire

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Course: International Marketing Assisted students in their final group project, presentation and case studies Observed and identify the area where students need more attention Corrected exam papers and grade them Researched on international marketing and trading issues

Greater New York City Area

 Created the evaluation framework for a pilot project in an entrepreneurship education program. Developed an impact evaluation survey and analyzed the results to assess the effectiveness of a financial literacy education program.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

 Merged and reshaped the survey data collected from four Asian countries (South Korea, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia). Used multinomial logit and probit models to prove that there is a positive association between public trust and public support for government expenditure expansion and government-led structure; wrote a summary report of findings.

Greater New York City Area

 Analyzed, generated and compiled best practices project, data and information on development issues in member state countries Wrote a report published on website (Title: Successful Model of NGOs in Climate Change)

Jongro-Gu, Seoul, Korea

 Designed and implemented the Han River restoration project with the Seoul city government.  Conducted a survey to measure public support for the implementation of a rehabilitation project.

Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea

 Devised strategy to evaluate and improve the performance of a higher education institution. Organized a workshop for over 150 faculty members to enhance their understanding in newly established strategy and evaluation system.

Master Of Public Policy, Public Policy

Master Degree, Political Science

Bachelor Degree, Business Administration, Chinese Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: The Sungkyun Times, Festival preparation committee