Academic
Three Texas universities, one throughline: economics, starting with agriculture and focusing on energy.
Schools, most recent first, then research and speaking.
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Energy Economics
Rice University
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Energy Economics
University of Houston Minor in Quantitative Economics
Honors
Recipient of the Beatrice Mladenka‑Fowler and Jesse C. Fowler Endowed Scholarship.
Activities and societies
- Sigma Chi Fraternity: Philanthropy Committee, raising more than $20,000 for the Huntsman Cancer Institute
- Economics Society
- Business Consulting Organization
- Investment Banking Scholars Club
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Agricultural Economics
Texas A&M University
Research
Indonesia: Energy & Resources Policy
Sole author Political Economy of Energy and Resources Policy
How Indonesia went from early OPEC member to net oil importer, and how it is responding: a pivot to natural gas and LNG, the shift from Production Sharing Contracts to Gross Split and Flexible Choice models, Pertamina’s 2021 takeover of the Rokan Block, and projects like Tangguh LNG Train 3 and the Abadi Field. It concludes that energy security depends on regulatory dynamism and new deepwater exploration.
- Energy policy
- Oil & gas
- LNG
- Production sharing contracts
- Pertamina
- Rokan Block
The Dynamic Impact of Feed-in-Tariffs on Solar Capacity: Evidence from the Chinese Border
Co-author With Kanwal Deep Singh and Ty Hampton, under Dr. Tilsa G. Ore Monago, Rice University Department of Economics
Uses a dynamic spatial regression discontinuity design on 426 county-year observations to show that China’s 2013 Feed-in-Tariff added 68.35 MW of solar capacity in the subsidized zone by 2016, after a three-year implementation lag, and that the subsidy outweighed the zone’s lower solar radiation.
Asia’s Renewable Energy Future: A Quantitative Analysis of Development
Primary author With Dr. Pablo Troncoso, faculty advisor and co-author
A study of energy production, use, and demand across nine Asia-Pacific economies using World Bank and IEA data, with a proposed Renewable Index that ranks where further renewable adoption would do the most good, and a comparison of national strategies in Japan, South Korea, and India.
Read on SSRN (opens in a new tab)Written as a quantitative economics researcher, Jan–Jun 2025. Methods and my role
Speaking
Invited Guest Speaker & Panelist
University of Houston Industry Panel Department of Economics
Selected by my alma mater to speak on a panel spanning academia and industry. I discussed my research paper and professional experience, and shared guidance on further study in economics drawn from my own academic and professional path.