At Yale-NUS, my goal is to continue my pursuit as an Economist and Innovator. As an Economist, I aspire to work as an economic impact analyst at a front-end consulting firm. I will apply my skills learned from my past published research papers to further my inquiry into financial economics by conducting professional research with Dr.Yibei Lu at Yale NUS International Trade and Finance Research department. Learning the logistics behind the professor's paper “The Production Life Cycle” firsthand will...

“The teenage inventor on a mission” - read the headlines of national news, Xezer Xeber, displaying Click Energy - my energy-generating keyboard. I have devoted countless hours to growing my keyboard from an idea into an established business. Click Energy was an exercise in uniting the intellectual vitality of an economist with the intrepid energy of an innovator, the endless patience of the economist incorporated into the adventure of an entrepreneur. I worked with the mindset of an economist when...

Azerbaijan is a melting pot of overlapping cultures, traditions, and peoples. It is where the innovative technology and knowledge of the West go hand in hand with the diverse customs of the East, and where state-of-the-art skyscrapers evoke harmony with 17th-century castles and fortresses. Azerbaijan is a community in which liberal billboards stand in peace with conservative voices in protests, and where Orthodox Slavs can live peacefully with Turkic Muslims. My country has imbued me with sentiments of acceptance and...

In my gap year, I plan to initiate the Azerbaijani branch of the project “Children’s Business Fair” established in California. I will be traveling to Ganja, Sheki, Guba, and other under-resourced Azerbaijani communities to conduct business fairs for 10-14-year-olds in order to train students on both entrepreneurial traits, like risk predilection and perseverance, and technical skills such as the Lean Business Canvas Model. By establishing a new business & entrepreneurship curriculum, I hope to develop a working knowledge of...

July 2019. Conference room of the University of Colorado Boulder. I looked up and slightly flinched. There were at least twenty of them, far more than I expected. I had four weeks to lead the Economics research team and present it to the professors. My research group was a melting pot of overlapping cultures, traditions, and peoples. It was a community where the innovative technology and knowledge of the Westerner went hand in hand with the diverse customs of the Easterner,...

My home is located in the variegated and beautiful terrain where the East meets the West, and where the freezing waves of the Caspian Sea wash the outskirts of the Caucasus mountains. I belong to the community of Azerbaijan. My country is a melting pot of overlapping cultures, traditions, and peoples. It is a place where the innovative technology and knowledge of the West go hand in hand with the diverse customs of the East, and where state-of-art skyscrapers evoke...

“The teenage inventor on a mission” - read the headlines of national news, Xezer Xeber, displaying Click Energy - my energy-generating keyboard. I have devoted countless hours to growing my keyboard from an idea into an established business. Click Energy was an exercise in uniting the avid curiosity of an economist with the practical attention of an engineer. I worked with the delicate mindset of an economist when using simulation modeling to analyze data about the energy industry and realizing...