About me

Welcome to my website. I am a Senior Economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). My current work focuses on developing applications of GIS and big data analytics to improve poverty estimation at a geographically granular level, inform the spatial targeting of investments, and understand the distributional impact of policy interventions. More recently, my work evaluates the distributional implications of natural hazards using machine learning and AI.

Prior to my career at ADB, I worked as a Senior Economist at the World Bank and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at AidData, a development research lab at the College of William & Mary. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell University in 2015.