Hello and welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Davidson College in North Carolina, U.S. I mainly work in the field of environment, natural resources, energy transition, and sustainability. I am interested in how people make choices, how inequality is exacerbated due to lack of access to basic goods and services, when their livelihoods are affected by natural resource extraction, environmental pollution, and energy transition policies. My research seeks to improve our understanding of whether communities, households, and individuals in low-income countries reap economic benefits in sustainable and equitable ways, or how they bear the consequences of industrial policies and environmental issues.

I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand, in 2022.  I also hold a Master of Public Administration from Tsinghua University in China and a BA (with Honors) in Economics and Business Administration from the American University in Bulgaria.  Before joining Davidson College, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Sié Chéou-Kang Center at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs, University of Denver, and Oxfam America. I am an AERE Scholar, a Research Fellow of the Global Labor Organization, an Associate Fellow of the United Kingdom Higher Education Academy, and a Visiting Researcher at the Economic Research Institute in Mongolia.

In my professional career, I have worked as a national consultant on various projects for the Government of Mongolia and multilateral organizations, including the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the Asian Development Bank.  I contributed to the development of the Law on Development Policy and Planning and the Mongolia Sustainable Development Vision 2030, passed by the Parliament in 2016. 

In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my sons, Chinba and Tony, and my husband, Enko. We love hiking, biking, and playing board games together.