Department of Economics
Yamika Ketu
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Key information
- Roles
- Department of Economics PhD Student in Economics Centre for Sustainable Finance Doctoral Research Fellow
- Department
- Department of Economics
- Qualifications
- BA (Rutgers University), MSc (SOAS)
- Email address
- 674729@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Borrowed from Nature: the Macroeconomic impacts of biodiversity loss on sovereign debt in South Asia.
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Ulrich Volz
Biography
Yamika is a PhD candidate in Economics at SOAS University, with a background in economic policy.
She has worked in international diplomacy, facilitating trade policy between the US and the UK, and more recently she has researched climate policy and corporate engagement in the US.
Yamika is researching the relationship between biodiversity loss and the macroeconomy in South Asia and the implications for sovereign debt sustainability. She holds a BSc in International Business from Rutgers University and a MSc from SOAS in Economic Policy. Her master’s dissertation focused on green finance policies incentivizing renewable energy in India.
Research interests
- Climate finance
- Ecological economics
- Biodiversity
- Sovereign debt
