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Boston, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Assisted an Economics professor in updating the material for a course entitled "Economic Organizations and Economic Systems" to take into account the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on unemployment.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Assisted Brown faculty in teaching Intermediate Microeconomics by running a weekly two-hour mandatory problem-solving section, as well as holding office hours, in order to help students with the course material.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Improved the company’s credit scorecards by analyzing client data using logistic regressions and gradient boosting algorithms in R, which led to an increase in payouts with a decrease in default rates for 4 different subsidiary lenders.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Worked with Brown faculty in estimating worldwide literacy rates ca.1500 A.D from a number of datasets including urbanization rates and book production, finding that early 15th century literacy affects current trends.
• Estimated first instance of writing in each country-of-today by reading historical academic work on different countries and manipulating the data in various ways (maps, graphs), which will potentially serve as a.

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Worked with the Argentine government on a nation-wide project on the evaluation and improvement of over 50 centers of attention to victims, by conducting interviews with the officials of each center, writing and.
• Researched and gathered data for over 300 emergency centers for victims, and then listed, digitized and analyzed the data, which served as an online resource for people in a vulnerable position and without the.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Participated in surveying over 180 Rhode Island residents on the housing market prices and environmental risk perceptions with a team of 5 students and 2 university professors at Brown University.
• Paper published in the NBER: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23854.ack

Casablanca, Morocco

• Engaged in internal consulting and helped in communicating with merchandise suppliers for potential transactions in a start-up with only 8 employees, making 16 deals with different suppliers in only 2 months.
• Organized the firm’s archives in an easy-access Excel database, which facilitated the analysis of past transactions.

Economics And Development Studies, Economics

Activities and Societies: EcoReps, Brown International Organization, The Critical Review, Arab Society, Socially Responsible Investment.

Studies Abroad

- Participated in the Consortium of Advanced Studies Abroad program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, administered by Harvard University's David.

International Baccalaureate (Ib Diploma)

Activities and Societies: Kayak Leader, Outdoor Leader, Model United Nations, Youth Leadership and Teamwork, Amnesty Norway, Peer.