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Hong Kong

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Produced weekly reports tracking macroeconomic indicator releases and Federal Reserve, ECB and Bank of Japan officials' speeches among other events, and their impact on respective sovereign bond markets;Completed two research reports as part of the research team: "Factors Explaining Gold Prices and Role of Gold in Investment Portfolio" and "Declining Japanese Government Bond Yields and Its Implications";Identified the Permanent Portfolio Fund, a mutual fund which aims to maintain 25% of its net worth in gold (alongside equity and fixed income assets), as case study of the report on gold'Examined the contribution of gold holdings to the overall portfolio return;Analysed Japanese fiscal and monetary policies in period of falling government bond yields, 1996-2012, and collected and visualised data from Bloomberg, Wind and official sources to produce supporting graphs;Compared and contrasted the Japanese experience with current Chinese macroeconomic outlook

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Collaborated with Dr Julia Shvets (Director of Studies at Christ's College) and Dr Toke Aidt in the "Private Provision of Public Goods and Group Dynamics: The Case of COVID-19 Asymptomatic Testing" project;Met regularly with Dr Shvets to discuss procedures and results;Created a dataset of 4,000 households in Cambridge and their respective GPS coordinates;Suggested a system which provides a unique identifier code for each distinct location, thus significantly reduced repeated calculation for 'clusters' of households;Paired each household to corresponding test kit drop-off location and assisted development of python codes that plot the locations and calculates distances from drop-off location for the 4,000 households

Master Of Science - Ms, Finance And Economics, Distinction In All Compulsory And Optional Courses

Activities and Societies: LSE Music Society - member, performed in Society Chopin Concert in Nov 2023

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Activities and Societies: Christ’s college

Advanced Level, A*A*A*A* In Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Chemistry And Economics, A*A*A*A* In Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Chemistry And Economics

Highest Mark in the World in A level Chemistry (100%)