Jessica Ting Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore, Singapore

• Key Responsibilities and Contributions:
• Drove data-intensive research projects and analyses which involved leveraging STATA, R, and Tableau for data harmonisation and cleaning, and advanced statistical analyses
• Partnered with cross-functional and cross-agency policy teams to contextualise research findings which supported evidence-based policy discussions and the delivery of actionable insights to senior management
• Formulated economic parameters and scenarios for national long-term infrastructure planning workstreams
• Developed analytical frameworks by synthesising economic literature to guide and enhance policy thinking and analysis processes
• Mentored interns in coding practices, policy contexts and econometric methodologies for research projects, strengthening team research capabilities and producing deliverables that shaped policy prioritisation

• Worked as an intern under the Policy Research and Evaluation Division
• Examined linkages between utilisation of long-term care services and healthcare costs
• Investigated transition patterns and drivers of disability and mortality

• Worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant under the Economics department for the course EC2102: Macroeconomic Analysis I
• Mentored and tutored over 50 Year 2 undergraduate Economics students over the course of two semesters

Singapore

• Worked as a research assistant at the Asia Competitiveness Institute under the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
• Assisted the team in updating the competitiveness statistics for the annual China and Shandong studies and research publications
• Initiated and conducted a review of the short-term and long-term fiscal sustainability assessment methods available in the existing literature
• Investigated the application of a selected short-term fiscal sustainability assessment method to China's sub-national data to analyse linkages between social spending and fiscal sustainability
• Contributed to the documentation of the research done on welfare spending and budget sustainability by co-authoring a number of technical working papers on the topic

Singapore

• Worked as an intern under the Strategic Planning, Research and Development Division, Policy Research Branch
• Developed a framework for executing cost analyses to aid policy evaluation upon reviewing existing literature and research
• Investigated linkages within public sector data using STATA

Singapore

• Worked as a research assistant under Dr. Slesh A Shrestha as part of a study on information interventions to facilitate migrant worker mobility in Singapore
• Examined the role of asymmetric information in determining employment outcomes of foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in Singapore
• Surveyed FDWs on their knowledge of labour laws, market conditions, and alternative job opportunities
• Communicated information to FDWs to reduce market information asymmetry and to assist FDWs in negotiating for better work conditions

Singapore

• Worked as an intern under the Trade Finance team
• Initiated independent research on alternative trade finance and the global synthetic diamond industry
• Sourced, documented, and developed database of food procurement companies in the United States
• Coordinated business trip for senior management (accommodation and meeting details and preparation of company briefs and talking points for meetings)

Master Of Science - Ms, Analytics

Track: Computational Data Analytics Courses: Data and Visual Analytics, Computing for Data Analytics, Operations Research for Supply.

Bachelor Of Social Sciences (Honours), Economics

• Grade Attained: Highest Distinction (CAP: 4.88/5.00) • Major: Economics (Specialisation: Quantitative Economics); Minor: Statistics •.

President'S Honour Roll

• USP Ambassador (2015-2019) • USP Peer Mentor (2016-2017) • University Scholars' Club Committee Member (Community Service GUI.

Gce A Levels

• Grade Attained: 6 Distinctions • Subjects Read: Project Work, General Paper, Higher Mother Tongue (Mandarin), Physics, Chemistry.