About Me

As a development economist my research focuses on the spatial determinants of development, primarily in India and South Asia. I am interested in which types of industries locate together, which industries exhibit co-agglomeration economies, and how the movement of people impacts the location of economic activity. My research centers on economic geography studying long-term development, utilizing econometric analysis, industrial and spatial economics, and machine learning techniques for the analysis of big data.

I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at George Washington University. I recently completed work as an Economic Consultant at the World Bank for the Urban Middle East & North Africa Unit on urban job creation. Previously, I also worked as a Research Analyst for the Global Food Engagement Unit at the World Bank Group working on food security as a lead team member contributing to the Global Alliance for Food Security. 

Before my PhD, I worked as a Research Specialist at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, assisting research at the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC). I have worked as a Research Associate for the Harvard South Asia Institute researching the historical consequences and contemporaneous effects of the 1947 Partition of British India. Immediately preceding, I spent two years as a Research Associate affiliated with the Center for International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School investigating development in India.

I have a Master's degree in International Trade, Finance and Development from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics where my research focused on macroeconomic issues facing the Indian financial system. Before pursuing graduate studies, I completed a double degree in Economics, receiving a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Clemson University and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The hallmark of this program was studying 3 different economic systems in three different countries: capitalism in the United States, socialist/welfare state economics in Denmark, and peripheral euro-zone economies while in Spain.

I am passionate about international development, environmental sustainability, programming, hiking, and maps. I enjoy GIS applications and quantitative methods to solving social problems. This electronic portfolio showcases work I've done over a diverse range of material, both academically and in post-grad work. This space is for everything from my research and explorations in economic analysis, to presentations and clips of work developed along the way.