Biography

As an economist, I want to tell stories about how market systems shape people’s lives and how they can be redesigned to expand fairness and opportunity. I grew up in Pleiku, Vietnam, where my family, like many others, depends on coffee farming. There, farmers sell through middlemen who hold better information about demand, prices and market access, enabling them to capture value at farmers’ expense. I see a similar story in digital markets. Platforms like Amazon act as intermediaries, sitting between consumers and sellers, collecting data and controlling what information is observable to market participants. My PhD will study how platforms’ information design may distort competition and facilitate algorithmic collusion among sellers’ automated pricing agents. This forms part of my commitment to consumer protection. At Cambridge’s Computational Cognitive Economics Lab, I studied how algorithms shape consumer decision-making, and exposure to antitrust case work strengthened my focus on market power in practice. Having benefited from educational opportunities at the LSE, PSE–l'ENS and Cambridge, I want to use economics not simply to describe the world as it is, but to help build one in which information empowers rather than exploits.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Economics and Data Science 2025
Ecole Normale Supérieure Analysis & Policy in Economics 2024