Sylvia (Likun) Tian

Sylvia (Likun) is a PhD Economics candidate in the Department of Economics at LSE. Her primary research interests are network theory, development economics and industrial organisation.

She is also a co-investigator on a project on electrification in rural Zambia with Niclas Moneke and Torsten Figueiredo Walter at the University of Oxford, and a visiting researcher at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), where she is working on a theoretical model for shipping network congestion.

Before joining the programme, she was a predoctoral research assistant to Xavier Jaravel in the STICERD Public Economics group, and a research assistant at the International Growth Centre at LSE. Formerly, she was employed as a senior economic consultant at Edgeworth Economics.

Supervisor
Francesco Nava

Find out about Sylvia's research on her personal website.