My Background

I am interested in how institutions work in practice. My focus is regulation, risk governance, and institutional design, and the ways rules shape incentives, distribute risk, and influence long term stability across markets and governance systems.

I am completing an MSc in Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where my academic work has covered risk governance, corporate regulation, international financial regulation, healthcare policy, and digital rights and privacy. My dissertation examines how different institutional approaches to regulating compensation shape bargaining power and pay outcomes in regulated labor markets. Using professional basketball and collegiate NIL governance as case studies, I analyze how league structures and compensation frameworks influence economic distribution and market stability.

Although much of my recent writing focuses on sports governance, I approach sports as part of a broader regulatory landscape. Collective bargaining agreements, salary caps, and NIL frameworks are institutional systems that allocate power and structure economic relationships. I am interested in how these systems evolve and how governance choices shape organizational outcomes.

Beyond sports, I have conducted policy research in healthcare regulation, including analysis of federal data exchange and interoperability frameworks. I have also studied financial regulation and global governance, with particular interest in how regulatory authority operates across jurisdictions and how institutions respond to uncertainty and systemic risk.

My undergraduate background in International and Global Studies and Political Science informs how I think about institutions. I am drawn to comparative governance, political economy, and the relationship between law, markets, and organizational design.

In addition to academic research, I worked in athletics communications within a Division I athletics department. That experience provided practical insight into how policies are implemented and how institutional decisions affect day to day operations.

Across sectors, my work centers on regulatory design, risk management, institutional accountability, and long term system stability.

Public Engagement & Leadership

Earlier in my academic career, I led a community education initiative focused on environmental sustainability. The project received the Girl Scout Humanitarian of the Year Award and involved developing educational materials, building a public-facing website, and coordinating community outreach efforts. The experience reflects an early commitment to public engagement, project management, and applied leadership. The project website remains available online.