CV

Academic

Currently:

PhD, South & Southeast Asian Studies with Political Economy
University of California, Berkeley
2022 - Present

Past:

MPhil Philosophy
Chinese Philosophy, Religion & Culture
Renmin University of China
2020

MA Pacific Asian Studies (Distinction)
Politics, History, Economics & Law
SOAS, University of London
2018

LLB (Hons) Law
BPP Law School
2016

Languages

  • Primary, Secondary & University in English Medium Education

  • Proficient in reading to academic level

  • Studied at:
    UC Berkeley (Spoken & Literary)
    SEASSI @ UW Madison,
    SOAS

  • Studied at:
    National Cheng Kung University,
    National Taiwan University,
    SOAS
    Newcastle University

  • Studied at:
    University of Cambridge

Memberships,Affiliations & Awards

Awards & Honours

  • Honorary Aide de Camp to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

  • Berkeley Doctoral Fellow (UC Berkeley)

  • Designated Emphasis in Political Economy Summer Funding (UC Berkeley)

  • Conference Grant, SASE 2023, Rio de Janeiro (N2PE)

  • Conference Grant, Max Planck Economy & Society Conference (N2PE)

  • Malini Chowdhury Fellow in Bangladesh Studies ‘22/23 (UC Berkeley)

  • Huayu Enrichment Scholar ‘20/21 (MoE of the Republic of China)

  • Lord Blunkett Widening Access Award (University of Law - Declined)

  • Darmasiswa Scholarship (MoE of Indonesia - Cancelled due to COVID)

  • International Excellence Scholar ‘18/19 & ‘19/20 (Renmin University of China)

  • International Summer Scholar ‘17 (SDCF at CUHK, PKU & SOAS)

  • Semester in Korea Scholarship ‘17 (AsiaExchange - Declined)

  • International Pro Bono Scholarship ‘16 (BPP Law School)

  • Vice-Chancellor’s Scholar ‘16 (BPP Law School)

  • Blackstone’s Entrance Exhibition ‘14 (Honourable Society of the Middle Temple)

Associations &
Learned Societies

  • Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

  • Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society

  • ExCom Member of the Association of Southeast Asian Studies

  • Member of the American Historical Association

  • Member for Association of Asian Studies

  • Member of the Economic History Society

  • Member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

    Working Groups etc

  • Young Scholar at the Institute for New Economic Thinking

  • Member of the LSE-Southeast Asia Early Career Researcher Network

  • Member of the New York Southeast Asia Network

  • President of the Southeast Asia Graduate Working Group at Berkeley

  • Member of the Berkeley-Stanford British Studies Reading Group