Tracey Fung

Tracey Fung is a senior pursuing a double major in Political Economy and Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, where her studies focus on identity politics and rural development in Asia. She spent this past year working with Dr. Karenjot Bhangoo Randhawa researching the role of women’s organizations in human security in Delhi. She looks forward to her fellowship with the CPD as an opportunity to bridge her undergraduate career to her graduate studies in international development.

Denny Lai

Denny Lai is pursuing a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, and a Public Policy minor at UC Berkeley, with a focus on international relations. His research interests broadly include economic development in Pacific Rim countries and political mobilization within developing countries. Denny’s prior work has focused on research ranging from congressional mobilization of expertise in lawmaking to politics of central bank appointments to the Federal Reserve banks. This past summer, he served as a Consular Affairs Intern at the U.S. Consulate-General, Osaka-Kobe in Japan, where he analyzed Japanese demographics and fiscal spending to make projections for future student exchanges to the United States.

Jiwook Yoo

Jiwook Yoo is a junior pursuing a B.A. in Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics at UC Berkeley. His primary interests are public finance, developmental economics, stochastic processes, and topology. This summer, he stayed in Berkeley, working on machine learning in the Statistics Department.