Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

Lebenslauf

EDUCATION

Lund University, Sep 2020 - June 2022

MA in Economic History: Economic Growth, Population and Development (120 ECTS)

  • Honors: Erasmus Mobility Grant for field work on agricultural transformation in Ghana
Linnaeus University, Sep 2016 - June 2018

BA in Peace and Development: Economics (180 ECTS)

  • Honors: SIDA Minor Field Study stipend for field study on platinum mines in South Africa; Award “Student of the Class” for general accomplishments
Lund University, Sep 2016 - June 2016

Human Geography: A level (30 ECTS)

Human Geography: the contemporary development of Africa I & II (30 ECTS)

 

PROJECT & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Lund University / University of Ghana, Jan 2022 – June 2022

Second Master Thesis: Agricultural Transformation and Labor Structures in Ghana

  • Research question: How do labor structures change along with growing farm sizes?
Lund University, Sep 2020 - June 2022

First Master Thesis: Resource Abundance and Material Wellbeing in Africa — An investigation of the resource curse

  • Research question: What is the relationship between resource abundance and material wellbeing in Africa?
Linnaeus University / University of the Free State, Sep 2016 - June 2018

Bachelor Thesis: The Platinum Boom in Boom in Rustenburg and the Bust of the Community: A Case Study of the Natural Resource Curse in South Africa

Research question: How has the boom in the platinum mining industry impacted the social fabric of a boomtown?

 

EXPERIENCE

Globalworks, Remote, Sweden, Nov 2021 - Ongoing

Editor

-    Edit and format reports covering the topic of working conditions and labor relations.

LE One-on-One Mentorship Program, Lund, Sweden / Nairobi, Kenya, July 2021 - Ongoing

Mentor Supervisor & Founder

-     Supervise 13 mentors in their work as mentors to bachelor students at Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya.

Faugert & Co / Technopolis Group Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, Nov 2022 - Jan 2022

Analyst Intern

-       Consultancy firm within monitoring and evaluation. My tasks involved conducting interviews and desktop studies.

Gothenburg University & Linnaeus University, Nov 2017 - Jan 2022

Student Mentor

  • Support program for students with I have assisted 12 students with organizing and structuring their academic studies.
Hope and Peace for Humanity, Gulu, Uganda April 2018 - Aug 2018

Intern

Proposal writing, fundraising, evaluating school programmes, conducting interviews.

 

STIPENDS

 

Erasmus Mobility Grant, field study on agricultural transformation in Ghana. Expected Jan-Mar 2022.

2021

SIDA, Minor Field Study, contribution for the research costs for the Bachelor thesis in South Africa

2019

Stockholms Grosshandelssocietet, contribution to the internship in Uganda

2018