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Dubai, AE

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Supporting governments and development partners move the needle on education and health reform in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Ziina is the UAE’s first peer-to-peer payment app, allowing you to send and receive payments with just a phone number — no IBAN or swift code required.
• Collaborated with design, engineering, and growth teams to lead end-to-end development of new products such as C2B upselling loop, internal data tooling for BizDev team, & a new point of sale solution.
• Developed product documentation including PRDs, product roadmap, user interview scripts, user stories, copy briefs, and more.
• Led 35+ need-finding and UX interviews and distilled key user insights to inform (1) product decisions and (2) feature enhancements.
• Led financial modeling, pricing analysis, and extensive benchmarking exercises to assess viability of new ventures and competitive landscape.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Closed 50+ business clients (B2B & B2C) with total LTV estimated at 300K+ USD.
• Conducted A/B tests for non-activated user communications to increase activation rates.
• Planned Q2 sales targets and created roadmap in coordination with Business Development Manager and growth team.

Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

• Spearheaded development of a six-week-long climate science & policy program for high school and university students in UAE as part of NYUAD's COP 28 engagement efforts.
• Built strategic partnerships with administrators from 12+ Abu Dhabi-based educational institutions to assess community needs and incorporated key insights in program development.
• Supported large scale relief drives for areas impacted by natural disasters and war.Note: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and departmental changes, the program was put on hold from September, 2021 to December, 2022.

• Qualified 200+ enterprise leads for StoryBird blockchain integration which resulted in seven closures.
• Onboarded 30+ new clients of “Marketplace” — an agro-centered e-commerce platform; created producer profiles; and provided sustained support to new clients through industry-standard CRM tools such as Hubspot.

Delhi, India

• Assisted editors on stories through research, proofreading, transcribing interview material, and editing
• Drafted a 5,000 word long-form reportage on gig-work and the future of the Indian platform economy after interviewing gig-workers, union heads, national & international policy makers, academics, and tech workers.

Remote

Analyzed WASH / sanitation-related survey data in Humla, Nepal, through linear- and multivariable regression analysis, to produce data reports on WASH practices in the district. Also provided recommendations to non-profit INGOs and government stakeholders (ADARA Group) on survey development and strategizing future data collections.This work was conducted.

United Arab Emirates

• The Gazelle is an independent weekly student newspaper based out of NYU Abu Dhabi. I served on the Features and Opinion Desk as Senior Editor from 2019-2020, before stepping in the role of Managing Editor. As Managing.
• Oversaw final newspaper content from an editorial and stylistic standpoint ensuring compliance with UAE media law and liased with senior university leadership, government partners, and our legal team in case of.
• Led and mentored the publication’s News and Opinion editorial teams, Copy team, and all staff writers.
• Spearheaded the publication’s diversity, inclusion, and equity efforts: pioneered the first staff-wide diversity climate survey which engaged 80% staff, and revamped hiring processes and outreach strategies for greater.
• Wrote 33 articles on topics relating to culture, sustainability, and politics for non-academic audiences.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

• The CoronaNet Research Project compiles a database on government responses to COVID-19. Its primary focus is to collect as much information as possible about the various fine-grained actions governments take to address.
• Tracked 1100+ of Qatar’s multi-sectoral policy responses to Covid-19 & carried out statistical analysis through linear- and multivariable regression models to make policy recommendations.
• Co-authored a report qualitatively analyzing the efficacy of Qatar’s policy response to Covid-19.
• Onboarded and mentored six other RAs and created a robust system for Qatar team’s database management.

United Arab Emirates

The First Year Dialogue (FYD) program is a semester-long program for first-year students which helps them better navigate the transition to university. In this role, I led the creation of a nine-session-long program which focused on campus integration, DEIB, and life-skill development, and was administered to 450 undergraduate students during the Covid-19.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics, Social Research & Public Policy

NYU Abu Dhabi is a highly selective liberal arts college with a 3.1% acceptance rate and a student body from 120+ countries. Offered a.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Sciences

Grade: 96/100

Education record

Grade: 9.8/10