Ruru Hoong is a PhD candidate in Economics at Harvard & HBS.
Her research interests currently lie in labour/ behavioural economics, focusing mostly on the economic impacts of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and data privacy. She graduated from Stanford in 2019, and is a Global Priorities Fellow at the Forethought Foundation at Oxford and a research affiliate at IQSS. Prior to graduate school she has worked/interned at BCG, the World Bank, Singapore’s Ministry of Finance and Education, and GIC.
When not doing research, she likes to read, write, dance tango, listen to jazz, and throw clay ‘round a wheel (mostly to complement her excessive tea consumption). She is a 2020 graduate of Faber Academy and is currently writing and re-writing her first speculative fiction novel — a dual narrative exploring the role of the Modern Woman in 1920s/2020s Shanghai & Southeast Asia through the lens of tea. Excerpts have been shortlisted for Craft’s 2023 First Chapters Contest and longlisted for Grindstone Literary’s 2020 Novel Prize. Her latest fiction and (amateur) translations of contemporary Chinese literature have been published in Spittoon Collective and Spittoon Literary (Issue 8).
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