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I hold a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland. I am currently an Economist at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics.

I have a background in applied microeconomics and causal inference. My primary line of research is in development and focuses on gender, household, and health economics in low-income countries. My secondary line of research is in consumer protection issues in the U.S. and focuses on facial recognition technology and user behavior.

Over the past few years I have contributed to a variety of policy-relevant projects. My experiences include providing economic analysis for a major federal rule and several consumer protection investigations at the Federal Trade Commission, conducting energy economics research at the World Bank, conducting food policy research at the World Wildlife Fund, designing a health policy evaluation strategy for a results-based financing project in Liberian hospitals, and identifying predictors of permanent housing for homeless families at the University of Washington eScience Institute.

Contact: fibnat27@gmail.com