Jingyu Gao

Experience

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  Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Youth Summit

  Jul 2014 - Nov 2014

  Conference Coordinator

  Managed contact database to invite scholars, diplomats and students from 21 APEC member economies to participate in the 2014 APEC Leader’s Meeting in BeijingWrote and distributed press releases of the Summit conferencesCoordinated presentations and room logistics for 45 foreign delegates and translated content for their academic presentationsPrepared research guidebook for Youth Summit seminar attendees by collecting and summarizing conference working papers related to internet economy and infrastructure connectivity from APEC official database 收起

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  Caixin Global

  Jun 2016 - Sept 2016

  Research Intern (Caixin Data Visualization Lab)

  • Wrote news reports covering public policy issues in China (e.g. corruption scandals, income inequality, technological innovation), and produced publication-quality data visualizations used in these reports• Assisted senior journalists finding data and documents, supporting their investigative news reports, such as follow-up coverage on DiDi-Uber acquisition in 2016

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  Georgetown University

  Sept 2016 - Apr 2017

  Translated the seminars and academic conversations between the leadership delegations from the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, DC think tanks, and the US State Department. Details:1. Conversation with the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Dr. Susan Thornton on bilateral trade relations and the reform of the Chinese state-owned enterprises at the US State Department.2. Seminars on the unemployment in US manufacturing sector at the Brookings Institution;3. Discussion about US-China economic profiles and prospects during the election year 2016 at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; 收起

  • Research Assistant

    Sept 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2016 - Jan 2017
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  Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

  Jan 2017 - May 2017

  Research Intern

  China Power Project (http://chinapower.csis.org/)Searched, translated data and official documents related to China’s military expenditure, infrastructure projects overseas, defense strategy in the South China Sea, J-2o fighter jets, Taiwan’s Southbound policy and other topics as requested by CSIS researchersCollected, analyzed, and manipulated large datasets, preparing analytical charts and graphs published on China Power Project’s micrositeProvided technical research assistance for CSIS’ other China-related projects, including estimating the value of annual trade that transits the South China Sea (link), China’s overseas FDI outflow and regulations 收起

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  IFC - International Finance Corporation

  Jul 2017 - Oct 2019

  Consultant

  Lead the quantitative analysis of ecommerce survey data collected in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Middle East and North Africa to assess regulatory constraints limiting the development of doing business online in these regions by applying multivariate econometric models and building visualizations for descriptive analysis in TableauAssist drafting policy report based on the team’s research findings related to FDI, published in the WBG’s Global Investment Competitiveness Report; conduct primary research on the legal framework of China’s investment laws and regulations, identifying key constraintsDevelop automated tools (Country Economic Memorandum CEM 2.0) that provide fundamental diagnostics of macroeconomic environment for the target countries, using tools such as growth accounting decomposition, fiscal-monetary framework adopted by the World BankWrite R and Stata scripts to automatically generate calculations and visualizations of key indicators such as bilateral foreign direct investment flows, stocks, firm productivity growth across different countries, improving the team’s data management and research workflow 收起

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  Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)

  Nov 2019 - now

  Economics Department

  • Economist

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Economic Associate

    Dec 2021 - Apr 2024

  • Economic Analyst

    Nov 2019 - Nov 2021