Welcome to my academic web page! I am an Associate Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Sydney. Here is a link to my faculty page at the School of Economics.

I am a development microeconomist focusing on the development of the private sector (firms, access to finance, entrepreneurship, markets, role of new technologies), with projects often overlapping with environmental, agricultural, and behavioural economics. I am involved in leading a number of ongoing field-based projects in countries including Fiji, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Tanzania, and Vietnam.

Microeconometrics and Public Policy. The applied economics seminar in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney.

Agricultural, Environmental and Resource Economics. The seminar in agricultural, environmental and resource economics in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney.

Sydney Development Economics Group (SDEG). Organizes ~quarterly gatherings of Sydney's development economics researchers. All who are interested are welcome to join the email listserv, submit papers to present, and attend the gatherings.

I hosted the Big Data and Textual Analysis in Economics, Finance, and Politics Workshop at the School of Economics at the University of Sydney on Thursday 1 June 2023, which included a livestreamed keynote lecture on Alternative Data in Economics by Professor Paul Raschky of Monash University.