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London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Lead credit risk analyst for a portfolio of sovereigns and multilateral development banks.

London, England, United Kingdom

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

- Conducted daily funding operations and open market interventions to implement monetary policy on the money markets trading desk. -Closely monitored market developments and commentary, providing briefings to senior management daily and as-needed.

Ottawa, Canada Area

- Conducted comprehensive credit assessments of sovereign, sub-sovereign, and supranational issuers, as well as domestic and international financial institutions.- Authored sovereign credit risk assessment methodology and published database of sovereign debt defaults.- Developed expertise in enterprise risk management and risk governance while leading an internal risk self-assessment. Led efforts to identify and respond to risks to departmental business objectives. Built on this experience to develop the Bank of Canada's Risk Appetite Statement and the related risk governance framework under the direction of the Chief Risk Officer and in consultation with Managing Directors, Special Advisors, and Executive Council.

Ottawa, Canada Area

- Raised funding for the Government of Canada in sovereign debt capital markets. - Team lead in investor relations. Conducted regular investor outreach and lead meetings with market participants. Represented the Government of Canada regularly at conferences.- Lead author on major departmental publications, including the Debt Management Report for 2014-15 as well as 2015-16, which reports on the Governments debt management activities for those fiscal years year, and the Debt Management Strategy 2018-19, which outlined the Government’s borrowing plan for the 2018-19 fiscal year.- Designed and led in the development of the Minister of Finance's Post-Secondary Policy Forum, a national policy development competition for Canadian students hosted by the Minister of Finance. Won the Deputy Minister's Award of Excellence in recognition of the initiative.

Ottawa, Canada Area

- Provided ongoing policy, economic, and financial advice to the Minister of Finance and senior officials at the Department of Finance Canada on items related to the transportation and infrastructure portfolio.- Established and lead the Department of Finance Young Professionals Network.

Calgary, Alberta

- Conducted complete legal and engineering surveys in remote areas of Alberta and British Columbia.- Worked with landowners and First Nations communities to ensure all concerns were being addressed.

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island, Canada

Masters Of Arts, Economics

Activities and Societies: Queen's RugbyMaster's essay studied the response of household debt levels to shocks in interest rates.

French

Completed six weeks of immersion training through the Explore program.

Bachelor Of Arts, First Class Honours (Bah), Economics With Subsidiary In Philosophy, 3.5

Activities and Societies: President of St. Francis Xavier Economics Society, St. Francis Xavier Men's Rugby ClubHonours thesis topic.

Mandarin

Studied Mandarin at Tsinghua University's Chinese Language School for five months at 20 hours per week during sophomore year exchange.

French

Completed six weeks of immersion training through the Explore program.

Bachelors - First Class Honours, Economics