Talks and presentations

Newsflash on Climate Change Misinformation

April 12, 2024

Talk, The London School of Economics and Political Science , London, UK

Presented a short intervention in the seminar for Kai Spiekermann’s class on the political philosophy of environmental change. Described the origins of misinformation as well as outlined which social and political communities are most vulnerable to misinformation.

Complex Environmental Systems

January 22, 2024

Talk, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

An examination of the intersection between systems science and climate change, particularly from a political perspective. Presentation to Kai Spiekermann’s class on “The Political Philosophy of Environmental Change” at LSE.

Political Liberalism and Moral Pluralism

November 25, 2023

Talk, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Presentation of my research proposal for my MSc dissertation. Feedback-based talk on Rawlsian liberal political theory and climate ethics.

Darwin and Natural Theology

February 06, 2023

Talk, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Talk given for Spring Term course, Life and Mind, on the Edinburgh MSc in Philosophy, Science and Religion. Based on the work of Leonard Lessius (1554-1623), T. H. Huxley, Richard Dawkins, and John Polkinghorne.

St. Augustine’s Confessions

January 11, 2022

Talk, Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Presented a flash talk to the Harvard Extension School (HES) professional development reading group. Tutorial based on the life of St. Augustine and his lesser known work “Confessions.”

American Derivative Securities

April 10, 2020

Talk, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

Presentation on US options pricing given to advanced PhD level class on Financial Econometrics. Talk based on Schreve’s “Stochastic Calculus for Finance II” book, Chapter 8.

Using Machine Learning for Macroeconomic Prediction

February 17, 2020

Talk, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

Presentation given to UConn’s Economics Society, a student organization. I presented results from a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) methodology applied to a large macroeconomic dataset, FRED-MD, from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.

Stabilizing Monetary Policy in an Uncertain World

November 26, 2019

Talk, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

Group presentation for a collegiate competition judged by Federal Reserve economists and academics. My contribution was the modeling section of the talk, where I explained the exploratory analysis and PCA model results.

ESG Investing and Carbon Footprint Measurement

August 12, 2017

Talk, The University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire

Presentation was the culmination of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Social Innovation Internship programme (2017). After the completion of my internship at Veris Wealth Partners, an impact investing firm in Portsmouth, NH, I showcased my contributions to the firm’s impact report and answered questions fielded from an academic audience as a group with other interns from different placements.