Alexandra Q
PhD Candidate
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexandra Q is a development economist and PhD candidate at the University of York with eight years of hands-on experience designing and managing impact-driven projects across Africa and Latin America. She combines formal training in infectious diseases and development economics with practical roles at the World Bank, Clinton Health Access Initiative and NIRAS, focusing on public health strategy, costing, and statistical systems strengthening. Her recent work spans public health initiatives in the SADC region and global statistics assignments for the Jobs and Poverty teams at the World Bank, reflecting a rare blend of program management and econometric rigor. Alexandra is skilled at translating complex survey and administrative data into policy-ready products, having overseen large national surveys and built forecasting and costing frameworks. Colleagues describe her as both analytically rigorous and practically oriented—equally comfortable in technical modeling and stakeholder capacity-building. She often brings cross-regional insights drawn from field experience in Latin America and Africa to inform scalable, evidence-based interventions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Development Economics (Advanced) Economics, Master of Development Economics (Advanced) Economics at The University of QueenslandPostgraduate Degree Infectious Diseases, Postgraduate Degree Infectious Diseases at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Economics at University of YorkEngineer in Economics and Business Economic Engineering, Engineer in Economics and Business Economic Engineering at Universidad Científica del Sur
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
survey10
database-design10
database9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alexandraqn/gld
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
This is the repository for the Global Labor Database (GLD). It aims to contain all necessary information to understand what the GLD is, how it functions, and how it harmonizes data. It contains the harmonization code. For questions on accessing the underlying data (not available here) please ask the team.
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
laborharmonizationdatabaseaimsunderlying-data
alexandraqn/R_Projects
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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