Professional Experience
August 2017 - Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
March 2022 - November 2023
Economist/Acceleration Diagnostic Specialist, UNDP, NY, NY
November 2021 - June 2022
Applied Economist/Consultant, Drafted Report on Extreme Poverty in Zimbabwe
August 2013 – June 2017
Research Associate, Randomized Control Trial on Meso-level Index Insurance in Ghana, The Ohio State University, OH, US
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Research Assistant, Financial Inclusion and Technical Transformation in Tanzania, The Ohio State University, OH, US
(under Professors Mario J. Miranda and Abdoul G. Sam)
April 2016 – December 2016
Impact Evaluation Coordinator, Nepal Rani Jamara Kulariya Irrigation, Development Impact Evaluation (DECIE), World Bank, Washington DC
(under Joop Stoutjesdijk, Paul Christian and Teevrat Garg)
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2011 – 2012
Social Policy and Economic Consultant, UNICEF EAPRO, Bangkok, Thailand
(under Mahesh Patel)
Selected Presentations
Invited Talks:
Department of Economics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Mar 2018
Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia, May 2018
IFC, The World Bank Group, April 2018
Stetson Bonner Program, Stetson University, April 2018
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, July 2017
Invited Discussant:
International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Vancouver, Canada, July-Aug 2018
Conference presentations:
International Association of Agricultural Economists triennial meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 2018
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, August 2018
Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Tampa, FL, November 2017
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL, July 2017
The Annual Bank Conference on Africa, Berkeley, CA, June 2017
BASIS Feed the Future AMA Innovations Lab Technical Meeting, Washington, DC, April 2017
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meetings, Boston, MA, August 2016
BASIS Feed the Future Innovations Lab for Assets and Market Access Technical Committee Meeting, Berkeley, CA, October 2015
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association & Western Agricultural Economics Association Joint Annual Meeting 2015, San Francisco, CA, July 2015
Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 2015
Learning from Application Symposium, Mount Holyoke College, MA, April 2011