Talks, presentations, and rooms

Where I have spoken, in reverse order, and the convenings I have sat in on as an observer. Titles are as given on the day.

Talks and presentations

July 2026 From Maladaptation to Co-AuthorshipInternational Summer School on Area Studies and Global Development, College of International Development and Global Agriculture, China Agricultural University, BeijingGroup report, and moderation of Roundtable 1, "Global Development Mutual Learning and Country and Region Studies," at the Bridging China and the World Youth Dialogue on Global Development. The roundtable's conclusions on community-held rights were adopted in the official summary.
Summer 2026 Does AI Clinical Decision Support Build or Erode Physician Competence?PKU–Yale Global Health Economics Summer Institute: AI for Planetary Health, Peking University, BeijingResearch design presented to the institute; Award of Excellent Abstract.
September 2025 A children-focused climate early-warning systemUN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies flagship event, 80th UN General Assembly High-Level Week, New YorkPresented Team SEESALT's system, which layers NASA and NOAA satellite data with real-time alerts, piloted for Cambodia, Kenya, and Tajikistan.
June 2025 Solving the Geo-PuzzleUN Tech Over Hackathon, UN Open Source Week, United Nations Headquarters, New YorkTeam lead, Team SEESALT: first place in the challenge among 21 teams; remarks at UN Open Source Week.
March 2025 Policy Substitutes or Complements? Industrial Policy and Institutional Quality in RwandaMidwest Economics Association Annual Meeting, Kansas CityWith Z. Yan, Z. Zheng, and T. Zhao; circulated as a UNU-MERIT policy brief.
2025 Digital Tools for Food Security in EthiopiaDevelopment Case Challenge, World Bank Group Youth Summit, Washington, DCPresented for Group O; global second place.
2023 Jobs and Education, Asia and PacificDevelopment Case Challenge, World Bank Group Youth Summit, Washington, DCPresented at the 10th Youth Summit, "From the Ground Up: Local Solutions to Drive Global Impact." Led the East Asia and Pacific team; global second place. Recommendations on agriculture and the informal economy were later incorporated into the operational framework of the Bank's fund for the poorest countries.

Interviews and writing

August 2026 InterviewYale Center Beijing, recorded in New Haven
2024 Cultivating youth-led agriculture solutionsWorld Bank Blogs, Jobs and Development, with A. R. Neelapu and S. EdwardsAuthor page at the World Bank

Rooms

Convenings I have attended as a youth observer or delegate rather than as a speaker. They are listed because the room shapes the work as much as the podium does.

Climate Mobility Summit 2026, "Towards a Global Consensus on Climate Mobility," Global Centre for Climate Mobility, Scandinavia House, New York, September 2026, alongside the UN General Assembly High-Level Week, attending
Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2026, International Growth Centre and Yale Economic Growth Center, with the Cowles Foundation and the LSE Global School of Sustainability, New Haven, September 2026, attending
PEDL Early-Career Researchers Workshop 2026, Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries, Yale Economic Growth Center, New Haven, September 2026, attending
Northeast Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC), Northeastern University, Boston, November 2024, attending by invitation
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Annual Meeting, Beijing, June 2025, with the World Bank Youth Advisory Group
IMF Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference, 25th edition, Washington, DC, November 2024
World Bank Justice and Rule of Law Forum, Washington, DC, June 2024
Independent Evaluation Group 50th Anniversary and Legal Week, World Bank Group, September 2023
Enterprise Surveys 20th Anniversary Forum, World Bank Group, May 2026
Earth Observation for Food Security international workshop, World Bank Group, May 2023
Clinton Global Initiative University Annual Meeting, Vanderbilt University
Fragility, Conflict and Violence Forum, World Bank Group
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), World Bank Group

Photographs are added as they are cleared for use. Last updated September 2026.