Introduction
I am a PhD candidate in Demography/Population Studies in the Social Policy Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, UK. My background is in Economics, where I hold an MSc and BSc in Economics. I have worked as a quantitative research analyst at Young Lives, University of Oxford, UK for over two years, where I was involved in supporting and conducting research using the survey data, as well as helped clean and check the survey data. Young Lives is a unique quantitative and qualitative longitudinal study, following the lives of 12,000 children across 15 years in four low and middle-income countries; Ethiopia, India (states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. The focus of the project was to understand the lives of poor children in these four countries, in order to help policy practice. Prior to that, I was a research assistant at Khazanah Research Institute in Malaysia, a research think-tank group that is linked to Malaysia's largest government-linked corporation. My main responsibilities there was to conduct research on inequality and poverty issues in Malaysia and provide policy recommendations at the national level. My research interests are on poverty and inequality, and human capital issues (e.g. skills, labour market inequality) at the micro-level.