Yanina Seltzer
2nd year Masters student focusing on international business and development economics. Interested in market-driven solutions to tackle persistent social issues, and in the role of technology in economic development.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Full-Time Student |
| Industries: | Education, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Media, Mobile |
| Location: | Boston, MA |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | bop, ict4d, Microfinance, microfranchising, mobile-banking, web4dev |
| Schools: | Brandeis University, Tufts University |
FULL BIO
I'm a second year Masters student at the Fletcher School at Tufts University where I'm focusing my studies on international business and development economics. I have experience in economic consulting and project management. I worked as a Research Analyst for an economic consulting firm, as a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank and I spent the past summer in Rio de Janeiro working for a social enterprise that gathers market research in favela communities. I'm particularly interested in market-driven solutions to tackle persistent social issues, and the role of technology in economic development.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Mobile Metrix, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | May 2008 - July 2008 |
| Description: | • Managed logistics and trained a 10-person team to complete a dengue-fever market research project in 2 favela communities.
• Supervised on-site survey quality and educational outreach to 300 households, impacting 1,200 people. • Developed microfranchising model for organization’s scaling and expansion. • Controlled collection of raw data and contributed to statistical and economic analysis for organization’s official report. • Authored a proposal for Johnson & Johnson sponsorship in 18 communities. |
| Employer: | Sun Microsystems, Medford, MA |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | February 2008 - April 2008 |
| Description: | • Designed Base-of-the-Pyramid executive communications strategy adopted by corporate and regional offices.
• Identified prominent trends in ICT innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. • Recommended strategic partnerships with key actors, organizations and companies in emerging communities. • Created an executive-level message map for implementation in company’s external communications. • Interviewed C-level and senior level Sun executives and influential Base-of-the-Pyramid academics and practitioners. |
| Employer: | ICT4D: Activities and Projects |
| Position: | Experience |
| Time period: | December 2007 - November 2009 |
| Description: | • M-Banking 2009: Balancing Innovation and Regulation Conference: Responsible for managing logistics for studentled conference sponsored by the Fletcher School and the Central Bank of Kenya to take place in Nairobi, Kenya in May 2009. Responsible for recruiting experts, academics and practitioners in the mobile banking field as potential panelists and sponsors; formulating agenda topics and managing post-conference deliverables (2008 – 2009).
• Mobile Metrix Executive Team: In charge of decision-making and strategy formulation for organization (2008 – 2009). • CiviRep: Responsible for formulating partnerships, technology, venture and business plan for an SMS-based crime crowdsourcing software platform to be implemented in Caracas, Venezuela (Spring 2009). |
| Employer: | Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC |
| Position: | Consultant, Development Effectiveness Division |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2007 |
| Description: | • Provided research, analytical and management support for portfolio performance and economic evaluation projects.
• Analyzed statistical and background material for the 2006 COMPAS publication, a common performance assessment system on management for development results for several multilateral development banks. • Produced technical reports and reformulated standardized bank-wide performance assessment rubrics. |
| Employer: | Nathan Associates Inc., Arlington, VA |
| Position: | Research Analyst |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2006 |
| Description: | • Conducted economic and statistical research and analysis for price fixing, wage discrimination, and litigation cases.
• Created and managed complex databases and spreadsheets using SAS statistical software. • Prepared expert antitrust class action litigation testimony for economists and law firms. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Tufts University |
| Time period: | 2006 - 2009 |
| Degree: | International Business and Development Economics, MA |
| University: | Brandeis University |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2005 |
| Degree: | Politics, Economics and Latin American Studies, BA |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Microfranchising; mobile banking; ICT4D; Web4Dev; social entrepreneurship; microfinance; travel. |
