While I love teaching and developing statistical methods as part of my research, the economic tragedies of my home country motivated me to also study economics.
From 2006-2019, I attended Florida State University and finished a second Ph.D. in economics. I worked with Dr. James Gwartney who developed the Economic Freedom of the World Index and has done significant work to connect the role of institutions to economic development.
My areas of interest include Statistics, Economic Development, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics, Political Economy, Risk-Management and Insurance, and Econometrics.