Tom Blanchard

Experience

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  EBRD

  Jul 2014 - Jul 2014

  Intern at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - Office of the Chief Economist

  • Worked on the EBRD's annual publication: The Transition Report 2014 – ‘Innovation in Transition’.• Collected data on transition economies. Recorded and presented data for statistical analysis.

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  CEPA Ltd

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2016

  Intern at Cambridge Economic Policy Associates

  Internship at CEPA, an economic consultancy, as part of the Santander Work Placement Programme. • Worked on projects across Transport, Communications & Media, Water and Energy sectors.• Developed a model in Excel for TFL on the economic effects of congestion on freight vehicles.

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  Observer Research Foundation

  Jul 2017 - Sept 2017

  Research Intern

  Two months volunteering with Camvol as a research intern at the Observer Research Foundation (a not-for-profit, multidisciplinary public policy think tank) in New Delhi. I worked within the Climate Change and Development Initiative, focusing on climate finance.• Wrote an extended report on the Raisina Dialogue 2017’s meeting on climate finance.• Co-authored a commissioned report on Nigeria’s energy sector and the scope for renewable energy investment from institutional investors.

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  Government Economic Service

  Nov 2018 - Aug 2020

  Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) Home Office Analysis and Insight (HOAI)

  • Economist

    Oct 2019 - Aug 2020

  • Economist

    Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
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  International Labour Organization

  Jul 2021 - Sept 2021

  External Consultant

  • Researched COVID-19 essential workers defintion for 126 ILO member countries and created a resultant dataset using ISCO and ISIC codes. • Conducted cluster analysis in Stata. • Wrote a chapter for the ILO's World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) report 2023 on this data collection, cleaning and analysis.

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  The World Bank

  Oct 2021 - Oct 2022

  Consultant

  Stata programming role working in the Jobs Group on the 'Jobs, Structural Transformation and Economic Growth’ report.

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  ODI

  Nov 2022 - now

  ODI Fellow | Ministry of Finance, Ghana

  Economist in the Ministry of Finance, Ghana. Revenue Policy Division.- Extractive industry fiscal regime modelling- Tax revenue forecasting- Annual revenue performance reports- Tax policy costings- Distributional analysis of the tax system- Technical training and capacity buildingThe Fellowship Scheme has two objectives: to provide low and middle income country governments with economists and statisticians where there are gaps in local capacity; and to give these economists and statisticians practical work experience in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Western Balkans. Show less