We are a group of highly motivated policy students at the Harvard Kennedy School who believe in the power of evidence to analyze and recommend policy. Through this site, we share this enthusiasm and give you some facts to better understand what is happening and what should be done. We built this website using agile product management methodology learned in DPI-691M Programming and Data for Policymakers taught by Prof. Dhrumil Mehta.
Riana Shah is a concurrent degree student at MIT and Harvard studying business and public policy. With her background in tech and sociology, she built an Ed tech startup that has done work in over 19 cities across 11 countries. She is now building EthixAI that combats algorithmic bias to fight systematic racism in tech. Linkedin
Fernando is a 2nd year MPA/ID student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Over the last summer, he worked as a Summer Intern for UN-Habitat on climate finance. Prior to matriculation at Harvard, he worked as Portfolio Manager and Fixed Income Strategist at TPCG Valores, a brokerage firm in Argentina. Before working there, he worked at Crisil Global Research & Analytics as research analyst of Latam equities. He was awarded the Fulbright-Provincia de San Juan scholarship and the Fortabat Fellowship to pursue his studies at Harvard as well as BCRA's 2016 Raul Prebisch Prize in Economic Research. He holds M.A. in Finance from Universidad de San Andres and a B.Sc in Economics from Universidad Catolica de Cuyo. Linkedin
Alejandro is a 1st-year MPA/ID student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a Colombian B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes who has a diverse work experience in economic development issues ranging from macroeconomics to small-holder farming and rural development. Before joining HKS, Alejandro led Bancoldex's (the Public Development for Businesses in Colombia) first internal impact measurement strategy. Alejandro's main topic of interest is post-conflict economic development across different regions of the world. Linkedin