Daniel Hill
Economist at FAO
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Hill is an agricultural and rural development economist with 14 years’ experience applying econometrics and policy analysis to smallholder market access, gender dynamics, and intra-household decision-making. He combines academic rigor—pursuing a PhD and publishing research projects—with hands-on policy work at FAO and state-level urban water and climate roles, translating complex data into actionable policy. His technical toolkit spans Matlab, R, and Excel for large-scale econometric modelling, including leading analysis of millions of ABS BLADE observations for climate resilience in NSW. Daniel has worked across research institutions, consultancy, and government, giving him a rare perspective on both field-level interventions (e.g., coffee value-chain work in Uganda) and high-level water and emissions policy design. Based in Rome, he brings a global outlook informed by projects in Indonesia, Australia and Uganda, and a practical habit of building decision-support tools that directly inform incentives for land-use change. Colleagues prize his ability to bridge academic causal inference with pragmatic policy implementation.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of New England (AU)Honours, Economics, First Class, Honours, Economics, First Class at University of Adelaide
Spanish, English
Github Skills (85)
python10
grails10
rxpy10
data-processing10
geofencing10
groovy10
android-app10
android10
clinical-trials10
data-collection10
reactive9
api9
reactive-extensions9
web-application9
insar9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openforis/groovymvc
Jan 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 5 years 1 month
openforis/collect-mobile
Mar 2014 - Feb 2018
Fast, intuitive and flexible data collection Android app for field-based surveys
Contributions:339 commits, 128 pushes, 3 comments in 4 years
clinical-trialsdatageofencingflexible-dataandroid
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