Senior Data Analyst, Synergy
Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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I am a Senior Data Analyst at Synergy, the Western Australian leading energy generator and retailer. I support Synergy's strategic and commercial decision making through electricity demand and revenue modelling and prepare the State Budget Forecast in line with market and business expectations.
In my previous roles at Synergy, I provide advanced workforce business-intelligence analytics, and undertake research on Australian labour market trends relevant to Synergy’s evolving corporate strategy. The scope of my research supports a diverse range of strategic areas such as employee engagement, industrial relation, talent acquisition and retention, remuneration and benefits, organisational design, and inclusion and diversity.
I also hold Research Fellow appointments at The University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School and at the Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC), a collaboration between the Government of Western Australia, UWA and local universities, constituted to conduct applied research and teaching in support of policy in the connected spaces of transport and land use planning.
Prior to this, I worked as a Research Officer and a Teaching Fellow at both UWA Business School and the School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University and as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Finance, Banking and Business Administration, Quy Nhon University, Vietnam.
My studies in international trade and finance involve modelling the global demand for energy, food and agricultural commodities and the (mis)valuation of currencies. In the area of financial asset pricing, I specialised in analysing the dependence structure of high-frequency returns and volatilities. My broader macroeconomic research interest is the interplay of technological innovation, intangible capital investment, and transport networks in facilitating structural economic transformation and productivity improvement.
My work has been published by Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Economic Surveys, Economic Modelling, World Economy, Open Economies Review, Economic Papers, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Energy Reports and North American Journal of Economics and Finance, among other journals.
I received my Ph.D in Economics from UWA and Master of Commerce in Finance from Victoria University of Wellington.