Teaching
Courses
Undergraduate
- Development Economics (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- Econometrics (2021)
Doctoral
- Development Economics, joint (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
- The Frontiers of the Economics of Artificial Intelligence, joint (2025)
- Development Economics (2021)
- Research Design for a Social Science Thesis (2022)
Master of Public Administration (ISSCAD)
- Statistics for Social Science Research (2022, 2023, 2024 spring, 2024 fall, 2025)
- Development Theory and Policy (2022)
Doctoral Advising
- Bure Cain (Zimbabwe, Ph.D. 2026) — Assessing the Relationship Between Economic Security, Cash Management Practices, and the State of Financial Inclusion in the Informal Sector of Harare.
- Xuanxuan Ma (China, Ph.D. 2026, co-supervisor, School of Public Health) — A Randomized Controlled Trial of Developmental Interventions for Clinical Medical Students in China.
- Assefa Zelalem Lijalem (Ethiopia, Ph.D. 2025) — The Impact of the Productive Safety Net Program on Household Food Security and Asset Accumulation in the Southern Region of Ethiopia.
- Khin Mar Aye (Myanmar, Ph.D. 2025) — Determinants of Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Transport Infrastructure Delivery in Myanmar.
- Fatou Jobe (Gambia, Ph.D. 2024) — Food Insecurity and Coping Mechanisms in Urban Unplanned Settlements: A Case Study of Ebo Town and Bakoteh Dumpsite in Gambia.
- Martin Mubanga Bwalya (Zambia, in progress) — Bridging Gaps in Rural Maternal Care: A Study on Midwife Availability, Attrition, and Maternity Service Delivery in Zambia’s Northern Province.
- Gabriel Isaac Kibombwe (Zambia, in progress) — Policy Pathways for Sustaining Zambia’s HIV Response Amid Declining PEPFAR Support.
MPA Advising
My MPA advisees at ISSCAD include Joni Effeh Kwakye (Ghana, 2026), Warie Grace Maninare (Papua New Guinea, 2026), Bahta Ashenafi Menasbo (Ethiopia, 2025), David Jonathan Williams (Sierra Leone, 2025), Stevius Charles Mfuko (Tanzania, 2024), and Tuna Kaleinasho Pauline Coetzee (Namibia, 2022).
Awards
- Third Prize, Peking University Young Faculty Teaching Skills Competition, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, 2025
- Peking University Award for Excellence in Moral Education, 2023