MPA Public Policy and Management 2009 - 2011
Tejas Aivalli
Tejas is an MPA Public Policy and Management student at the LSE. Born in Mumbai, India, he later immigrated to Canada. Tejas earned a B.A. (Hon.) in Political Science and English from the University of Toronto. His undergraduate thesis was on the electoral reform referendum in Ontario in 2007. At university, he was part of numerous societies, the student government and the campus newspaper. Tejas was one of eight university graduates selected from across Canada to be part of the Ontario Legislature Internship Programme, where he worked as a non-partisan staff to elected representatives. Tejas helped develop amendments to Ontario's electoral laws and prepare private member's bills. He presented a paper at the 2009 Annual Canadian Political Science Association Conference in Ottawa, Canada. At the LSE, Tejas is part of the MPA Policy Forum and the Staff Student Liaison Committee. His interests are interest groups and urban issues, particularly public transit.
Carlos Nascimento
Carlos is an MPA Public Policy and Management student at the LSE. His studies are supported by the British Council Chevening Program Scholarship, LSE Scholarship and Instituto Ling Scholarship. Carlos was born in São Paulo, Brazil, where he earned a Bachelor Degree in Public Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). Regarding his professional experience, Carlos has performed relevant functions in the public, private and non-for-profit sectors. In the government, he worked both in the Legislative and in the Executive branches. In the São Paulo City Hall's Secretariat for Labour, he was Chief of Staff, Deputy Secretary and Secretary, being in charge of coordinating both the strategic management functions and the formulation and execution of Economic Development, Labour and Income Generation public policies. He was responsible for managing more than 700 employees and a budget of US$ 72 million. Carlos also has intense activities in the third sector and politics. He believes the MPA at LSE is going to help him to foster his career in government and politics as well as in consulting for public sector and private companies doing business with governments. For further information please see Carlos Alexandre Nascimento's CV| (PDF).
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Halil Ozturk
Halil is an MPA Public Policy and Management student at the LSE. Halil Ozturk graduated in 2000 with a BA in Labour Economics and Industrial Relations from Ankara University, Turkey, ranked 1st among department graduates. After graduation, he attended to TC Ziraat Bank Banking School between 2000 and 2001. He worked as an expert and internal auditor in TC Ziraat Bank Head Office Ankara Turkey for 4 years. During this period, he was in charge of managing and planning the audit strategy of about 40 auditors and audit of almost 100 bank branches in the TC Ziraat Bank audit centre. Supervision of the audit reports was one of his main responsibilities. At the beginning of 2006, he changed his career to international trade field and now continues his career as a foreign trade expert in The Undersecretariat of The Prime Ministry for Foreign Trade (UFT), Ankara Turkey. In the UFT, he is in charge of conducting anti-damping and anti-subsidy investigations in order to protect domestic industry from injurious effects of unfair trade practices on the basis of World Trade Organization regulations. He is also a prospective commercial counsellor at the Turkish embassy in any foreign country after graduation from LSE. He believes that his studies at LSE will contribute to his career in the public sector.
MPA Public and Economic Policy 2009 - 2011
Gabriel Boc
Gabriel is an MPA Public and Economic Policy student at the LSE, focusing on public economics and management. Originary from Romania, Gabriel graduaded in 2009 with a double BA in social sciences and history from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. During his undergraduate years, he interned at the Overseas Development Institute, London and worked as a research assistant at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Prior to joining the MPA programme, he worked as a consultant with A.T. Kearney, a management consultancy, in their south-eastern European regional office in Bucharest. Currently, Gabriel's primary interest is in public management and economic development policy. For further information please see Gabriel Boc's CV| (PDF).
MPA Public and Economic Policy 2008 - 2010
Mahjabeen Haji
Mahjabeen was an MPA Public and Economic Policy student at the LSE and graduated from the MPA in 2010. She was a member of the MPA Public Policy Forum as well as the Global Public Policy Network. Prior to commencing her postgraduate studies at the LSE, Mahjabeen attended Mount Holyoke College, and subsequently worked in the fields of Economic Consulting and International Tax Restructuring in New York. While the private sector provided invaluable experience and exposure, Mahjabeen decided she was more passionate about development and health policy, and used her time in the MPA to explore empirical development policy frameworks. She complemented her studies with grassroots work in rural Guatemala, where she tested alternative models of micro-credit and micro-consignment for effectiveness of access to loans and essential health products for the poorest. Mahjabeen is particularly inspired by the Grameen model of banking, and in the future, hopes to combine her research and practical experience to implement a scheme that provides sustainable access to credit for the poorest in her home country, Tanzania. Mahjabeen is a native speaker of Swahili and Gujarati, and is conversational in French and Spanish. In her spare time, she coordinates volunteering activities that involve tutoring underprivileged primary school children in the local community and cooking at the homeless shelter.
Florian Prittwitz-Schlögl
Florian was an MPA Public and Economic Policy student at the LSE and graduated from the MPA in 2010. After two years of practical and leadership challenge as a top-management-consultant, Florian was eager to come back to academia and benefit from the intellectual challenge with Europe's number one economics faculty and a group of outstanding fellow students. He is mainly interested in the transformation of advanced welfare states, educational systems, and regulation - and more generally in understanding the true effects of political decisions on the wellbeing of individuals. Having graduated from the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich in Theatre, German Literature, and Philosophy, Florian already pursued a rather diverse path that he plans to continue at the interface of private and public sector - either as a consultant or in full responsibility for shaping the further modernization of an institution.
Aarohi Vashishtha
Aarohi was an MPA Public and Economic Policy student at the LSE and gradudated from the MPA in 2010 after working for more than three years in the financial sector in India. Changing career path was a very important decision for him but he was at an interesting cross-road where he could have continued doing what he was doing or be a part of something more exigent but meaningful. He chose the latter and wanted to explore new development models which give equal weight to the progress of economy, society (including the socially excluded) & environment. Aarohi was looking for a place which would help him understand these intertwined forces as they cannot be treated separately and he found that at LSE. MPA at LSE is one program that truly combines the two disciplines - political science and economics. He believes LSE is definitely trying to bring the 'science' back in the 'social sciences' and is truly international. The courses offered as part of the program are very specific to his area of interest - Economics & Development. They fall clearly in line with his long term goals. Aarohi is the President of the MPA Policy Forum and works closely with the student community, the administration and the academia. In the summer, Aarohi worked for one of biggest players in the oil and natural gas sector on their energy policy in Central Asia. As a part of the course curriculum, Aarohi is working with the UK Department of Energy and Climate change for his capstone project. He thinks 'energy space' is an area to watch out for.
MPA Public Policy and Management 2008 - 2010
Angela Konert
Angela was an MPA Public Policy and Management second year dual degree student enrolled in the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin/ Germany and gradudated from the MPA in LSE 2010. Her academic and work experience are mostly concentrated on business management especially in the automotive industry, business promotion as well as commercial and EU affairs. During her undergraduate studies in Stralsund/ Germany Angela spent study semesters abroad in Poland and Lithuania before interning in Dubai and Germany with large automotive manufacturers. While interning with the German Embassy in Ankara/ Turkey Angela worked in the economic affairs department; deepening her knowledge in German-Turkish economic relations. Thus, at LSE Angela is focusing on Environmental Regulation and Economic Diplomacy. After graduation she strives to work in external/ governmental affairs or economic relations in Germany or abroad. As part of the MPA curriculum, Angela is working with the European Commission and the Hungarian National Development Agency for her capstone project. Her Master thesis deals with environmental regulation in Turkey. For further information please see Angela Konert's CV| (PDF).
Marta Luczynska
Marta was an MPA Public Policy and Management student at the LSE and graduated from the MPA in 2010. Before coming to the LSE, Marta completed a B.S. and MEng in Computer Science and Engineering at MIT and then spent a year in Jerusalem working for a non-profit organization called Middle East Education through Technology (MEET), which brings together excelling Israeli and Palestinian high school students for a 3-year educational program focused on computer programming, teamwork, and leadership. She's been involved in the Student Staff Liaison Committee, the MPA Policy Forum, and the Global Public Policy Network during both of her years at the LSE. Marta has always been passionate about technology and education, seeing them as transformative tools in international development. She hopes to one day start her own non-profit organization empowering youth in developing countries to make positive changes in their communities. In preparation, she's planning on spending the next few years working in development, ideally combining research and in-country fieldwork, and hopes to pursue a PhD in development economics in the future, perhaps even here at the LSE. For further information please see Marta Luczynska's CV| (PDF).
Caroline Mulliez
Caroline was an MPA Public Policy and Management student at the LSE and graduated from the MPA in 2010. Originally from Lille, Caroline did her undergraduate degree in Bruxelles. She has two Bachelors, one in economics and business administration, the other one in political science. Caroline spent the last semester of her undergraduate in McDaniel College (Maryland) and afterwards completed an internship in Washington DC, working for financial planners. Caroline would like to work in consulting. During holidays, she usually works as activity leader for kids, at the Club Méditerranée notably. For further information please see Caroline Mulliez's CV (PDF)|.
MPA Public and Economic Policy 2007 - 2009
Farah Bhanji
Farah was an MPA Public and Economic Policy student at the LSE and gradudated from the MPA in 2009. She was a member of the Global Public Policy Network and the Staff-Student Liaison Committee. Prior to joining the MPA programme, Farah studied International Development at the University of Guelph. She has interned for a social enterprise in Guatemala and an international crisis response and disaster risk reduction agency in Tajikistan. Closer to home, Farah tutored Afghan refugees in her faith community for over seven years. Farah's main intellectual/professional interest is development economics. In the future, she sees herself working with a government agency for international development and would like to play a role in increasing the effectiveness and policy coherence of bilateral foreign aid. For further information please see Farah Bhanji's CV| (PDF).
MPA Public Policy and Management 2007 - 2009
Melissa Bhatnagar
Melissa was an MPA Public Policy and Management second year dual degree student enrolled in the Columbia University (SIPA)/London School of Economics MPA Programme concentrating in Health Policy and Economics and graduated from the MPA in 2009. Melissa also holds a Doctorate in Pharmacy and practiced as a Pharmacist at the world renowned Children's Hospital of Philadelphia prior to joining the Programme. She has extensive experience in collaborating with health care professionals aiming to provide cutting-edge health care services as well as formulating hospital policy guidelines focused on patient safety and quality improvement. Melissa's areas of professional interest and specialization include health care finance, policy, and economics. For further information please see Melissa Bhatnagar's CV| (PDF).
Hugo Rodríguez Nicolat
Hugo was an MPA Public Policy and Management second year student on the dual degree at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York and graduated from the MPA in 2009. His academic and work experience are mostly concentrated on the political science field, where he has served as an advisor, electoral strategy coordinator and logistics organizer. Currently his primary interest relay on the public management field, migration, economic development and governance. Before joining the MPA program Hugo served as Director of Interinstitutional Relations of the National Institute of Migration of Mexico. For further information please see Hugo Rodríguez Nicolat's CV| (PDF).